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Hyperpituitarism
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Hyperpituitarism is a condition due to the primary hypersecretion of pituitary hormones; it typically results from a pituitary adenoma. In children with hyperpituitarism, disruption of growth regulation is rare, either because of hormone hypersecretion or because of manifestations caused by local compression of the adenoma.
Symptoms and signs
Symptoms caused by hormone excess and associated mass effects include:
Cause
The cause of hyperpituitarism in most cases is due to pituitary adenomas. They usually come from the anterior lobe, are functional and secrete the hormone, GH and prolactin.
Mechanism
Evidence indicates that the mechanism of hyperpituitarism can originate from genetic disruption causing pituitary tumorigenesis, most pituitary adenomas are monoclonal, which in turn indicates their origin from an event in a single cell. There are three hormones that are oversecreted resulting in the pituitary adenoma: prolactin, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and growth hormone (GH).
Excess prolactin may result in a prolactinoma Excess GH results in gigantism, the severity of gigantism depends on whether the epiphyseal plate is open. The four most common types of hyperpituitarism are caused by 4 types of pituitary adenoma, as follows: prolactinoma, corticotropinoma (Cushing's disease), somatotropinoma (gigantism), and thyrotropinoma .
Diagnosis
For the diagnosis of hyperpituitarism it depends on the cell type(s) affected, clinical manifestations of hormone excess may include, gigantism or acromegaly, which can be identified by clinical and radiographic results. Cushing's disease diagnosis is done with a physical examination, laboratory tests and X rays of the pituitary glands (to locate tumors) For prolactinoma, diagnosis comes in the form of the measurement of serum prolactin levels and x-ray of pituitary gland.
Treatment
Treatment (for hyperpituitarism) in the case of prolactinoma consists of long-term medical management. Dopamine agonists are strong suppressors of PRL secretion and establish normal gonadal function. It also inhibits tumor cell replication (in some cases causes tumor shrinkage) Treatment for gigantism begins with establishing target goals for IGF-1, transsphenoidal surgery (somatostatin receptor ligands- preoperatively) and postoperative imaging assessment. For Cushing's disease there is surgery to extract the tumor; after surgery, the gland may slowly start to work again, though not always.
See also
Hypopituitarism
References
Further reading
External links
Pituitary disorders
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A garrison ration is the quantity and type of food served to a soldier when they are stationed somewhere. It is generally not the same as the rations fed to troops in combat or transit, which are usually termed combat rations, field rations, marching rations or some other task-specific term. This term is mostly used with respect to historic militaries. Modern thinking about nutrition and military logistical support is generally very different today, although people may still speak of "garrison rations" in relatively underdeveloped countries.
Traditionally, the garrison ration of an army was quite simple and often inadequate for basic nutrition. The British army in the 18th century encouraged troops to grow vegetables at their bases, and sometimes raise livestock, in order to supplement their nutrition. British garrison rations at the time generally consisted of one pound of bread and three-quarters of a pound of beef daily.
German Army in the Second World War
German rations were issued on a scale according to the duties and locations of the troops, there were 4 scales of ration;
Ration I (Verpflegungssatz I) is for troops committed to combat, for those that are recuperating from combat, and for troops stationed in Norway north of 66° N. Latitude.
Ration II (Verpflegungssatz II) is for occupation and line-of-communication troops.
Ration III (Verpflegungssatz III) is for garrison troops within Germany.
Ration IV (Verpflegungssatz IV) goes to office workers and nurses within Germany.
In the United Kingdom
In 1689 the first Royal warrant was published concerning the messing provisions for troops. The Commissary General was authorised to issue rations on a repayment basis. The ration was two-thirds of a pound (302 g) of bread and two-thirds of a pound of meat. fourpence (4d) was deducted daily from the soldiers' pay.
As there were no barracks at the time, soldiers were billeted on inn-keepers. The inn-keepers would receive fourpence to provide meals to the billeted soldiers.
In 1792 barracks for soldiers were introduced and soldiers were given 1½d a day for bread.
In 1795 allowances for bread and necessities were consolidated to 2¼d per day and was later increased in the year by 1½d per day to reflect increased prices of bread and meat.
From 1815 to 1854 the daily ration for a British soldier in the United Kingdom was 1 pound of bread (453 g) and ¾ of a pound of meat (340 g). Two meals were provided, breakfast at 7.30 a.m. and dinner at 12.30 p.m.
In the West Indies troops were issued with salt beef on five days with fresh meat being issued for two days a week.
Crimean War
Following initial disasters in the supply system, reforms were made and British troops were issued the following; 24 oz (680 g) of bread, 16 oz (453 g) meat, 2 oz (56 g) Rice, 2 oz (56 g) Sugar, 3 oz (85 g) Coffee, 1 Gill (0.118l) spirits and ½ oz (14 g) salt.
First World War
During the First World War British troops were issued the following daily ration; 1¼ pound (567 g) of meat, 1 pound (453 g) preserved meat, 1¼ (567 g) pound of bread, (or 1 pound (453 g) of biscuit and 4 oz (113 g) of bacon), 4 oz (113 g) Jam, 3 oz (85 g) sugar, ⅝ oz (17 g) tea, 8 oz (226 g) vegetables and 2 oz (56 g) of butter (weekly)
Horse Rations
As horses were a principal form of transport for the British Army, horses also had a scale of rations issued.
Inter-war years
In 1921 the Treasury accepted that the public should be responsible for rations and the first ration scale was approved. The daily ration scale was;
12 oz (340 g) Meat, 16 oz (453 g) bread and 2 oz (56 g) of bacon.
Second World War
British troops in the United Kingdom had a ration scale set with different scales of rations for male and female soldiers. The daily ration scale in September 1941 was as follows;
Modern
UK MOD Nutrition Policy Statement
Joint Service Publication (JSP) 456 Part 2 Volume 1 of December 2014, the Ministry of Defence policy on nutrition is as follows;
United Kingdom Armed Forces Food Based Standards
Mandatory food
Restricted food
Prohibited food
Daily Messing Rate
The Daily Messing Rate (DMR) is used to provide the following daily calorific intake;
The current Daily Messing Rate is;
£2.73 in the United Kingdom
£3.60 outside the United Kingdom
Catering for diversity
In accordance with current UK legislation and Government guidelines it is incumbent on the Armed Forces to cater for all personnel irrespective of gender, race, religious belief, medical requirements and committed lifestyle choices.
In the United States
During the American revolution, the Continental Congress regulated garrison rations, stipulating in the Militia Law of 1775 that they should consist of:
One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork or one pound of fish, per day. One pound of bread or flour per day. Three pints of peas or beans per week, or vegetables equivalent, at one dollar per bushel for peas or beans. One pint of milk per man per day. One half-pint of rice, or one pint of Indian meal per man per week. One quart of spruce beer, or cider, per man per day, or nine gallons of mollasses per company of one hundred men per week. Three pounds of candles to one hundred men per week, for guards. Twenty pounds of soft, or eight pounds of hard, soap for one hundred men per week.
These proportions changed fairly little until the American Civil War, although the exact contents varied somewhat. In 1863, potatoes were added to the ration at a rate of thirty pounds per hundred rations. The development of early nutrition science in the late 19th century led to changes to rations in 1892 that emphasized a more diverse selection of vegetables in addition to meat and potatoes. The principles behind the garrison ration came under fire after the Spanish–American War, as the long distance between American supply chains and troops fighting in Cuba, Puerto Rico and especially the Philippines left soldiers eating rotten foods and subsisting on canned goods that were made to very poor standards. The American death toll from bad food in that war exceeded combat fatalities.
By World War I, the American garrison ration had improved dramatically, including 137 grams of protein, 129 grams of fat, and 539 grams of carbohydrate every day, with a total of roughly 4,000 calories. However, fresh vegetables were largely absent, and the ration was inadequate in terms of vitamins. Further advances in nutrition led to the replacement of the garrison ration in 1933 with the New Army ration, which ultimately developed into the rations system described at United States military ration.
Since the WWII-era, A-rations and B-rations have been provided as part of garrison rations.
Currently garrison rations that are prepared in dining facilities and mess halls use a standard pounds per hundred sheet for all meats. They also have standard recipe cards are follow guidelines under TB MED530 for compliance standards.
See also
Field ration
Military ration
History of military nutrition
References
External links
Fresh Foods for the Army, 1775-1950 - Information on US Army ration history at the Quartermaster Museum
Operational Rations of the Department of Defense, 7th Edition
Military food
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Muskurati Morning
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Muskurati Morning is a TV show hosted by Faysal Qureshi and Ayesha Khalid. It seeks to entertain, educate and expresses the voice of Pakistani woman.
Synopsis
The show discusses health issues, fitness advice, legal problems and relationship hiccups. Herbalist Abdul Ghaffar Agha offers tips and possible cures, dermatologist Dr. Khurram Shahzad discusses skin care and beautician Gul-e-Rana offers personal aesthetic advice.
Kismat Connection shows couples discussing their lives. Pop Korn discusses movies and celebrity gossip. Silver Screen' discusses Pakistani cinema. Be My Guest discusses celebrities. Public Opinion'' allows viewers to ask questions of experts or request a makeover.
External links
Muskurati Morning on TVOne Global
Shes on One with Faisal Qureshi
Ayesha Khalid Muskurati Morning
Pakistani television talk shows
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Pius XII Memorial Library
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Pius XII Memorial Library is an academic library located on the Saint Louis University Frost Campus. Named after Pope Pius XII and built in 1959, it occupies 215,000 square feet and houses over 1.3 million volumes, including more than 30,000 rare books. It is the home of the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library. During the fall and spring semesters, students use the library 24 hours a day from Sunday through Friday, with abbreviated hours on Saturdays.
General
Pius XII Memorial Library works to collect and maintain past and present ideas and issues. The collection of information available at the library aims to demonstrate the Jesuit mission of the pursuit of knowledge. To achieve this part of the mission, Pius XII Memorial Library works to implement technology to gather and preserve information from its own collection and from other libraries and sources around the world. It aims to provide digital and physical places for students and faculty to find information at Saint Louis University.
Technology
There are 87 public computers available and wireless access throughout the building. Students may print on one of four printers using Billiken Bucks, which can be loaded onto a students account online. To find online sources, students can use SLUth Search Plus on the library's website. This feature searches through all of the materials that Pius has access to, both in the library and in online databases.
In November 2017, the Academic Technology Commons (ATC) on the ground floor of the library was opened, providing the student body with access to newly developed technologies such as 3D printing and robotic equipment. In the near future, the library plans to continue remodeling the library to provide for the latest technological needs of SLU students.
Another resource available online to students is the Ask-A-Librarian online instant messaging. During library hours, librarians respond to questions regarding research or finding materials. Texting is another method to ask a librarian questions.
Services
Interlibrary Loan
Pius has the ability to offer students resources that the library does not have through an interlibrary loan program called ILLiad. Through an online account, one may use ILLiad to place, track, and keep a history of loan requests. One may also use ILLiad to access electronic copies of articles as PDFs.
Another interlibrary loan service Pius uses is MOBIUS, the Missouri Bibliographic Information User System. This service allows students to gain access to books in Missouri that are not presently available in Pius library.
University Writing Services
University Writing Services (UWS) has peer consultation appointments located in the library. The goal of the program is to advance students' writing through peer review, writing groups, and workshops.
Pius offers writing services to both undergraduates and graduates by appointment.
Research Assistant Program
The Research Assistance Program (RAP) aids in identifying and using library resources for research needs. Pius offers research assistance and strategies through the help of research librarians. Undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff who are working on research projects are able to make appointments with research librarians online.
Vatican Film Library
Pius XII Library also houses the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library, established in 1953 with help from the Knights of Columbus. It is unique to SLU and the only other collection is in Rome. This collection is the only one in the Western Hemisphere for Vatican Microfilm Collection. It contains more than 37,000 microfilmed manuscripts from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Among its outstanding manuscripts are some of the oldest copies of the Bible in Greek, the works of Virgil, illuminated manuscripts of Dante, works of medieval philosophers, theologians, historians, classical Latin and Greek authors, and Renaissance humanists.
Citation Guides
Pius also offers access to citation guides to help cite sources in AMA, APA, Chicago, Legal, MLA, and Turabian styles. These style guides are available in all of the University libraries.
Events
The library holds numerous events and exhibitions throughout the year. During finals week, the College of Arts and Sciences brings therapy dogs to the library to help reduce students’ stress levels and give them a study break.
The library also hosts educational talks and conferences for students and community members. On occasion, it also hosts book signing events.
Past events in 2013 included an exhibition on The Ballets Russes in 2013 and a guest lecture and discussion about the St. Louis Exorcism of 1949. The Vatican Film Library hosts a medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies conference every year. From spring 2019 to spring 2020, the library hosted an exhibit showcasing various American Civil War artifacts and stories.
Social media
Pius uses social media including Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram to inform students about events and activities the library offers.
References
External links
Saint Louis University Libraries website
Instagram: @piuslibrary
Pinterest: @piuslibrary
University and college academic libraries in the United States
Pope Pius XII
Saint Louis University
1959 establishments in Missouri
School buildings completed in 1959
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The German 500 was an automobile race sanctioned by CART held at EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Germany in 2001 and 2003.
Race History
The German 500 as put on the schedule for the 2001 CART season and it was the first CART race ever to be held in Europe. It was the beginning of a two-week European stretch for the series; the Rockingham 500 was held at Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, England one week later.
The September 11 attacks occurred Four days before the race, causing most major American sporting events scheduled on the same weekend as the German 500 to be postponed, including National Football League and Major League Baseball games and a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race, the New Hampshire 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The Italian Grand Prix, a Formula One race, was held that weekend. According to Ronald Richards, the vice president of CART, the series decided to continue with the race prior to the cancellation of that week's NFL games, a decision followed by other American leagues. Richards acknowledged that "We wish we would have had the input regarding the NFL's decision prior to making our decision." In remembrance of the September 11 attacks' victims, and in a desire to avoid criticism for holding the German 500 so soon afterward, CART changed the race's name to the American Memorial. The series also held tributes on the day of the race, and made a $500,000 donation to the World Trade Center Relief Fund, matching the event's prize fund. The race was won by Kenny Bräck but was marred by a crash involving Alex Tagliani and Alex Zanardi.
In 2002, the German 500 was originally scheduled for September 21st but was cancelled after EuroSpeedway filed for insolvency. The race returned to EuroSpeedway the following year, as did Zanardi, who ran 13 laps to represent those that he never completed in 2001.
In 2003, the race returned and so did Alex Zanardi, who drove a specially adapted car prior to the race. Sébastien Bourdais won the race but CART dropped EuroSpeedway Lausitz after the 2003 CART season.
Race winners
References
Champ Car races
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Armillaria puiggarii is a species of agaric fungus in the family Physalacriaceae. This species is found in Central and South America.
See also
List of Armillaria species
References
puiggarii
Fungi described in 1889
Fungi of Central America
Fungal tree pathogens and diseases
Taxa named by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini
Fungi of South America
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The discography of Nada Surf, a New York-based alternative rock group, consists of nine studio albums, thirteen singles and one extended play (EP). Nada Surf was formed in 1992 and consists of Matthew Caws (guitar, vocals), Daniel Lorca (bass, backup vocals), Ira Elliot (drums, backup vocals), and Doug Gillard (lead guitar).
Albums
Studio albums
Extended plays
Other records
Singles
Other releases
Where Is My Mind? Tribute to the Pixies (Contributing "Where Is My Mind?") - Glue Factory - 1999
This Is Next Year: A Brooklyn-Based Compilation (featuring "Blizzard of '77") - Arena Rock Recording Co. - 2001*
Music from the OC: Mix 2 (featuring "If You Leave" (OMD cover)) - WEA - 2004
Future Soundtrack for America ("Your Legs Grow") - Barsuk - 2004*
For the Kids Too! ("Meow Meow Lullaby" (compilation track)) - Nettwerk America - 2004
Love Rocks ("Inside of Love") - Human Rights Campaign/Centaur Entertainment - 2005
Friends With Benefit, (songs from one One Tree Hill) - contributing "Always Love" - 2006
John Tucker Must Die: Music from the Motion Picture ("I Like What You Say") - Wind-Up - 2006*
Rails & Ties ("In the Mirror" (compilation track)) - Milan Records - 2007*
Heroes: Original Soundtrack ("Weightless") - NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music & Consumer Products Group - 2008
Nano-Mugen Compilation 2009 ("Weightless") - Ki/oon Records - 2009
* All are non-album versions of each song
Films, games, TV programs and adverts soundtracks
Nada Surf have been featured several times in the television series One Tree Hill:
"Inside of Love" was played in season 1 episode 13.
"Always Love" was played in season 3 episode 3.
The band make a guest appearance on season 3 episode 11 playing "Concrete Bed" in concert as Peyton (Hilarie Burton) is trying to convince their band manager to agree to be a part of the benefit CD which is later named as "Friends with Benefit".
"See These Bones", "Here Goes Something", "I LIke What You Say" and "The Film Did Not Go Round" appeared in season 5 episode 10.
"Are You Lightning?" was used in season 6 episode 17, which had Matthew Caws as a guest composer for the episode score.
Nada Surf performed the "Kitty Cat Song" used as the theme tune for the Catz 2006 PC game, officially titled "Meow Meow Lullaby Remix". The song was written by Matthew Caws, Ira Elliot and Daniel Lorca, with additional vocals from Lianne Smith.
Nada Surf covered The Beatles' classic "All You Need is Love" in 2006. The cover was featured in a Chase Bank credit card television commercial in the U.S.
“Blankest Year” featured in a 2006 TV commercial for the Suzuki Swift in Germany.
The song "Blonde on Blonde" from Let Go is featured during the opening and end credits to the 2004 coming of age German film Sommersturm (Summer Storm). "Blonde on Blonde" is also featured in the 2004 John Travolta film, A Love Song for Bobby Long, and in the television series Six Feet Under.
"What is Your Secret" from The Weight Is a Gift, was featured in "A New Light", episode 3 of the ABC series Six Degrees.
Nada Surf recorded a cover of the classic 1980s song "If You Leave" by OMD for the television series The O.C. The song played during a prominent scene in which Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) shares an emotional goodbye with Anna Stern (Samaire Armstrong). This scene was a tribute to the John Hughes film Pretty in Pink, in which the OMD version of the song originally appeared.
Nada Surf songs have been played three times in the television show How I Met Your Mother; "Inside of Love" was featured in the first season, "Always Love" was featured in the twelfth episode of the second season, and "Beautiful Beat" was featured in the closing moments of the twelfth episode of the third season as Ted (Josh Radnor) revisits the bar.
"Always Love" is featured on the soundtrack to the 2007 film Disturbia.
"Zen Brain" is featured in the 2001 German film Nichts Bereuen.
"Hyperspace" is featured in the 2004 German film The Edukators and the 2009 remake of My Bloody Valentine.
Nada Surf's song "I Like What You Say" is featured in the 2006 film John Tucker Must Die.
Nada Surf's song "Weightless", from their album Lucky, premiered in the 30th episode (season 2, episode 7, "Out of Time") of the NBC television series Heroes, on November 6, 2007, and will appear on its original soundtrack.
"The Fox" from Nada Surf's album Lucky is featured in the closing montage of The Riches episode 204 "Slums of Bayou Hills".
"Happy Kid" is featured in the opening scenes of an episode of Numb3rs entitled "When Worlds Collide".
Covers
Nada Surf play the title track of the Pixies tribute album, Where Is My Mind?.
Daniel and Matthew went to school at the Lycée Français de New York and also spent time in France and Belgium as children. They have been influenced by French culture, and the band has recorded cover versions of Alain Souchon's song "La p'tite Bill est malade", Indochine's "L'Aventurier", and Françoise Hardy's "Au Fond d'un Rêve Doré"
Nada Surf covered The Beatles' classic "All You Need is Love" in 2006.
The band has covered the Stooges song "I'm Sick of You" for the Iggy Pop tribute album, We Will Fall.
The band covered OMD's "If You Leave" for the Music from the OC: Mix 2 soundtrack album.
They have covered the song "Blue Moon" for the Big Star tribute.
Nada Surf covered The Smiths' classic "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" for a BBC Radio 6 Music tribute operation, featuring Ed Harcourt on keyboard. They subsequently included it to their set lists.
On January 17, 2008, the group covered "Ooh La La" by 1970s rock band Faces during an acoustic show for a local radio station in Hamburg, Germany.
The band covered the song "Why Are You So Mean To Me?" originally by the band Vitreous Humor.
They also covered ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION's song "Mustang" on the Nano-Mugen Compilation 2011.
Notes
References
Rock music group discographies
Discographies of American artists
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The 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 20th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000. This series also, for the second time, doubled as a qualifier for the 2020 Summer Olympics, with the top four countries qualifying automatically.
Fiji finished first in the Series, winning five of the ten tournaments. The United States finished in a best-ever second place, reaching the semifinals in all ten tournaments. The relegation battle was a three-way competition going into the final rounds involving Japan, Kenya, and Wales, with Japan finishing last to be relegated from the Series next season. The World Series Qualifier tournament saw Ireland promoted to core status for the first time for the 2019–20 season.
Core teams
Japan was promoted to core team status for the season after winning the 2018 Hong Kong Sevens qualifier. They replaced Russia, which was relegated after finishing as the last place core team on the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series.
Tour venues
The official schedule for the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series was:
Standings
Official standings for the 2018–19 series:
Source: World Rugby
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Placings summary
Tallies of top four tournament placings during the 2018–19 series, by team:
Players
Scoring leaders
Updated: 2 June 2019
Dream Team
Impact award
Updated: 26 May 2019
Coach of the Series: Mike Friday, U.S. head coach
Tournaments
Dubai
Cape Town
Hamilton
Sydney
Las Vegas
Vancouver
Hong Kong
Singapore
London
Paris
See also
2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification
References
External links
Official Site
World Rugby Sevens Series
World Series
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The Bijela is a river in central Croatia, a right tributary of the Pakra River. It is one of the biggest rivers in western Slavonia, flowing from east to west and enabling formation of fertile fields on its way. In the Middle Ages the area of Bijela was owned mostly by the Tibold noble family, while in the mid-16th century it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. After the liberation in 1699, it became part of the Kingdom of Slavonia within the Habsburg Monarchy.
Geography and hydrography
The river is around long. It has its source in Ravna Gora mountain near the village of Novo Zvečevo in the vicinity the Papuk Geopark area in the region of western Slavonia. The upper course of the river flows westwards, then turns near the village of Kapetanovo Polje to the southwest finally mouthing into the Pakra near the village of Poljana.
Throughout its course, Bijela receives the waters of many tributaries, like Željnjak, Brekinska, Miletina rijeka, Koritska rijeka, Orlovac and others. For smaller vessels it is navigable for much of its lowland flow.
Bijela is an important source of public water supplies, as well as for recreational use. It is known for its recreational fishing, i. e. sport fishing. The most represented fishes in it are brown trout, common carp and grass carp. There are also several nearby fish ponds (like Pjeskara, Raminac or Uljanik) in the Bijela-Pakra area, available for sport fishing, but also for very significant commercial fishing (Ribnjak Poljana).
See also
List of rivers of Croatia
Ilova (Sava)
Sirač
References
External links
Željnjak Brook empties into the Bijela River at Sirač village
Fishing in rivers Bijela, Pakra and Toplica
Fishpond Poljana
Rivers of Croatia
Landforms of Požega-Slavonia County
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List of Gauleiters
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The following list of Gauleiters enumerates those who have held the Nazi party rank of Gauleiter, a type of regional party leader in Germany only within Adolf Hitler's system.
Of the 44 former Gauleiter of the NSDAP thirteen committed suicide when Nazi Germany surrendered, eight were executed by the allies after the war, one was executed by the SS and one died in Soviet captivity. By 1954, when Karl Wahl became the first former Gauleiter to publish his memoirs, eight were still missing, three in jail and the remaining ten were free men.
List
This is a list of Gaue and Gauleiters, with their time in office in brackets:
Notes
References
Inline
Bibliography
Miller, Michael D. and Schulz, Andreas (2012). Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders Of The Nazi Party And Their Deputies, 1925-1945 (Herbert Albreacht-H. Wilhelm Huttmann)-Volume 1, R. James Bender Publishing.
Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte
External links
Gauleiter Nuremberg War Crimes International Court
Luxemburg Gauleiter
WorldStatesmen - here Belgium
List of Bavarian Gauleiter
Gauleiter
Gauleiter
pl:Gauleiter
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The Lider class, also referred to it as Shkval class, Russian designation Project 23560 Lider, (), is a combined stealth nuclear-powered guided missile destroyer and cruiser, under consideration for the Russian Navy. Detailed design phase began in 2016–2017, with construction expected to commence after 2020.
In April 2020, the Lider project was reported suspended but in July 2020 was reported to still be moving ahead.
History
Project approval was given in 2013, and in 2015, Severnoye Design Bureau was awarded with a contract for the creation of a smaller non-nuclear and heavier nuclear-powered variant of the future destroyer. In 2016, the Krylov State Scientific Center handed the preliminary design of the destroyer to the Russian Navy. Initially, twelve ships were planned to be built and split between Russia's Northern and Pacific fleets. Later, construction of eight vessels was mentioned.
A May 2017 report indicated that the Lider-class destroyer had been dropped from the Russia's State Armament Programme for 2018–2027 due to financing reductions, however in June 2017, United Shipbuilding Corporation announced the Russian Defense Ministry had approved the preliminary design of the Lider class destroyer.
In February 2019, a decision was made to build the 19,000 ton nuclear-powered variant of the destroyer, instead of the proposed 12–13,000 ton variant equipped with a gas-turbine powerplant. Two vessels should be built by end of the 2020s at a cost of RUB100 billion per vessel. It is believed the construction of the lead vessel could begin as soon as 2023.
On April 18, 2020, Russian newspaper Interfax reported that the Severnoye Design Bureau had suspended development on the Lider. However, in June, Alexei Rakhmanov, head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, reported that the project was still moving forward.
Design
According to Advisor to the General Director of the Krylov State Research Center Valeriy Polovinki, that worked out the destroyer's preliminary design, "The Lider will be a universal ship, triple-hatted as a destroyer, large ASW ship and guided missile cruiser while being smaller than Project 1144 ships and carrying far more weaponry," as reported in The Defence Talk. He further reported the new destroyer "is meant to replace the s, the main anti-surface warships of the Russian Navy, as well as the s and the anti-submarine destroyers."
The new destroyer will have extensive food storage and stores, giving them an independent cruising capability of 90 days. The ships will be about long with a beam of , and a maximum speed of . The vessels are estimated to displace up to 19,000 tons. In total, they should carry a combination of at least 200 missiles of different variants. A flight deck and hangar will accommodate up to two Ka-27 or Ka-32 helicopters.
See also
List of active Russian Navy ships
List of ships of Russia by project number
References
External links
Project 23560E Shkval
Destroyers of the Russian Navy
Proposed ships
2020s ships
Destroyer classes
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Greeneville is a neighborhood of the city of Norwich, Connecticut, located northeast of downtown Norwich along the west bank of the Shetucket River. Most of the neighborhood is designated Greeneville Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The district was listed on the National Register in 2005 and includes 683 contributing buildings, seven other contributing structures, and one other contributing site over a area.
The district is drawn to "correspond to the village as it was laid out in 1833, but also include additional streets laid out and developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to accommodate population growth. Areas north and south of the district boundaries were excluded...." as those areas included undeveloped land, or fewer contributing relative to non-contributing buildings, or reflected a "shift in architectural character."
According to the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation the district "is a historically significant industrial village that was created to support and sustain water-powered industry from 1828 to about 1940. Much of the enduring success of this industrial enterprise can be attributed to the entrepreneurial vision of industrialist William P. Greene (1795–1862). His development of this planned community and a company to deliver a centralized power system, combined with significant technological infrastructure improvements in the late 19th century, supported the largest industrial presence in Norwich. Although nominally a part of the City of Norwich after 1875, from its creation in 1833 until after World War I Greeneville remained a relatively independent and self-sufficient, working-class community-an evolution fully expressed by the district's large, cohesive collection of generally well-preserved domestic, institutional and commercial architecture. While much of the architecture has the vernacular character expected in a mill town, the district also includes representative examples of the major styles of the period, including Greek Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, and Carpenter Gothic."
See also
Neighborhoods of Norwich, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut
References
External links
National Register of Historic Places in New London County, Connecticut
Gothic Revival architecture in Connecticut
Norwich, Connecticut
Historic districts in New London County, Connecticut
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
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Regie Company
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The Régie Company () was a parastatal company formed in the later Ottoman Empire by the Ottoman Public Debt Administration, with backing from a consortium of European banks. The company had a monopoly over tobacco production. Revenue from the Regie Company was supposed to help overcome the Ottoman state's persistent shortage of income. The Regie Company constituted the largest foreign investment in the Ottoman Empire, and it attempted to introduce more efficient production methods - against local resistance.
In 1881, the state monopoly on salt was incorporated into the Regie Company, which passed revenue from salt taxes (tuz resmi) to the Public Debt Commission. As the state (or a parallel state controlled by the government's creditors) now effectively controlled salt production and salt prices, salt smuggling became a problem.
In Turkey, the Regie Company was nationalised in 1925 and became Tekel, which was sold to British American Tobacco in 2008.
There are successor companies in other Ottoman successor states. To this day, the state-run tobacco monopolies in Lebanon and Syria are known as Regie.
References
Taxation in the Ottoman Empire
Tobacco companies of Turkey
Tobacco taxation
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International Police Association
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The International Police Association (IPA) is a friendship Non-Governmental Organisation (for members of the police force, whether in employment or retired, and without distinction as to rank, position, gender, race, language or religion. By 2021, there are more than 360,000 members in nearly 100 countries, of which 65 are affiliated National Sections. The IPA is committed to the principles as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and is in Consultative (Special) Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, and also is in Consultative Status with the Organization of American States and UNESCO.
Organizational Goals and Motto
The IPA was founded on 1 January 1950 under the Esperanto motto on its emblem, Servo per Amikeco (Service through Friendship), to create friendly links and encourage cooperation between individual police officers around the world. In addition, the Association promotes international cooperation in social, cultural and professional fields, encourages peaceful co-existence between peoples and preservation of world peace, improves the public image of the police service and enhances recognition of the IPA by international bodies.
History
The IPA is founded
In the years 1948-49, Arthur Troop made contact with his police friends in both the UK and abroad. In 1949 he had an article published in the British Police Review under the pseudonym of ‘Aytee’. Following an amazing response, Arthur was convinced he should proceed, and the IPA was founded on 1 January 1950 under the Esperanto motto 'Servo per Amikeco' (Service Through Friendship). Arthur Troop became the first Secretary General of the British Section. His notion of an association with development of social, cultural and professional links amongst its members, in an environment free from distinction of rank, gender, race, language or religion, became a reality.
1st IPA World Congress
With the help of early pioneers, Arthur Troop worked untiringly to encourage the founding of other National Sections. From small beginnings the IPA message quickly took hold and the formation of new Sections throughout the world became rapid. Soon there were sections in the majority of Western Europe. In 1955, at the first International Executive Committee meeting in Paris, Arthur Troop became the first International Secretary General, a post he held until he stood down in 1966 for personal reasons.
First sections outside of Europe affiliated
On 16 March 1961 at the extraordinary World Congress held in Paris, the first sections outside of Europe - Canada and Hong Kong, were affiliated. At the third World Congress held in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 1961, the first African IPA section was also affiliated, with IPA Kenya joining the association.
First female PEB member elected
1982 saw the election of the first female IPA member to the PEB, the former name of the International Executive Board, Phyllis Nolan of IPA Section Ireland. She served for 12 years, initially as 2nd and then 1st Vice President. Phyllis also served as President of IPA Section Ireland and is currently Chair of that section’s Region 4 and the manager of the IPA House in Dublin.
International Administration Centre formed
In 1986, due to the increasing membership of the Association, the need for permanent staff was identified. It was recognised that it would be increasingly difficult to move the administration from Section to Section as had been the practice until then. As such, a permanent centre was established in the United Kingdom in 1987 at the headquarters building of Section UK.
Structure
International Executive Board
The International Executive Board (IEB) is responsible for the day-to-day management of the IPA. It's made up of eight IPA members who are elected by the membership at the World Congress and they serve for a 4-year term.
External Relations Commission
The ERC continued its work in promoting the IPA within organisations the IPA collaborates with by taking part in meetings and conferences, such as the UNODC’s 27th "Session on Crime" in Vienna in 2018 and "the International Conference of INGOs" at UNESCO in Paris in 2018.
Professional Commission (PC)
The PC concentrates on the professional aspect of the association, including the following projects relating to police structure and development:
Young Police Officers' Seminar (YPOS)
The YPOS is a training event for young IPA members from Law Enforcement Agencies, held every second year. The organiser of the YPOS 2019 was IPA Section UK, with the event taking place in Stirling, Scotland. In total, 44 young police officers from 25 sections participated in the YPOS and enjoyed professional lectures, as well as social and cultural outings.
Arthur Troop Scholarships (ATS)
The ATS is awarded annually to 10 – 15 IPA members for professional education and advanced training, with the aim of aiding IPA members in their professional development in memory of the founder of the IPA. The ATS may be awarded to any IPA member active in a law enforcement role, but is predominantly targeted at our younger members.
International Learning and Development Exchange Programme
The International Learning and Development Exchange Programme (ILDEP) relates to an international exchange of IPA members pertaining to their professional working role and is placed under the responsibility of the Chairperson of the PC. The exchange has a focus on sharing knowledge, an exchange of ideas, practices, and policy.
International Education and Information Center
Gimborn Castle, in Germany, houses the IPA's International Education and Conference Centre, and is widely referred to as the Flagship of the Association. It is here where professional seminars, conferences and meetings are held in idyllic wooded mountainous surroundings, some 30 miles east of Cologne in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia. IBZ Gimborn was founded on 25 October 1969 by a group led by Günter Kratz, Hans Jansen and Theo Leenders. They seized the opportunity to rent the castle from Baron von Fürstenberg. Conversion work was started on the main building and the defunct local primary school. Seminars initially were held in nearby Dürhölzen.
Socio-Cultural Commission (SCC)
The SCC is responsible for the development and promotion of social and cultural activities within the IPA, with a focus on the following tasks:
Travel Assistance
IPA Sections frequently arrange friendship weeks for members and their families to promote the culture and traditions of their countries, thus facilitating cross-border understanding. Many members participate in these events, while others travel on their own, with help from the sections they visit
IPA Houses
Many sections offer IPA members accommodation options: More than 40 IPA Houses are available, offering reasonably priced accommodation, plus the IPA has many other accommodation options available, including members’ holiday homes and discounts at hotels. IPA Houses and other accommodations are advertised in the IPA Hosting Book, with at present 264 hosting options.
International Sports Events
Sports events and championships are arranged worldwide with numerous IPA members participating. The IPA Games is the latest contribution and is organised biennially. IPA Portugal hosted the IPA Games 2018, and IPA Montenegro will be the host for the next IPA Games.
World Congress
The World Congress is a prestigious IPA event which has been hosted annually since 1955, when the first congress took place in Paris. Since then 34 sections, on 6 continents, have hosted this annual gathering. The last 5 years saw IPA Congresses taking place in Limassol, Cyprus (2015); Auckland, New Zealand (2016); Albena, Bulgaria (2017); Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2018) and Dubrovnik, Croatia (2019).
64th World Congress
The 64th IPA World Congress 2019 took place in the coastal resort of Cavtat, near Dubrovnik, from 8-13 October 2019. The facilities chosen by the hosting section combined a beautiful setting with excellent meeting facilities, including a congress hall providing ample space for around 300 congress participants from 63 out of the IPA’s 67 affiliated sections. After a full day of congress sessions, everyone had the opportunity to relax and round off the day with a quick swim in the Adriatic Sea or a short stroll into historic Cavtat.
See also
International Association of Women Police
References
External links
International Police Association - International Administrative Center
International nongovernmental organizations
Law enforcement
Organisations based in Nottingham
1950 establishments in England
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Denis Amici
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Denis Amici (born June 10, 1972) is a Sammarinese politician who served as Captain Regent of San Marino alongside Antonella Mularoni from April 2013 until October 2013.
Biography
Amici was born June 10, 1972 in the City of San Marino, San Marino, a small country in Europe completely surrounded by Italy. Amici has a degree in Accounting and Business, taking over his father's company in 1999. He first entered politics in 2008 and is a member of the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party. Amici was elected to the parliament in 2012. On March 21, 2013 Amici, together with Antonella Mularoni, was elected joint Captain Regent of San Marino for a six-month term, starting on April 1 and ending October 1. Amici lives in Fiorentino, one of the nine municipalities of the country.
References
1972 births
Living people
Captains Regent of San Marino
Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party politicians
Members of the Grand and General Council
20th-century politicians
21st-century politicians
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William Ellis Green (12 August 1923 – 29 December 2008), who signed his cartoons "WEG", was an Australian editorial cartoonist and illustrator who drew the Australian Football League premiership posters from 1954 until his death.
Life and career
Green's original name was Ian; he later legally changed it to William. Born in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy on 12 August 1923 to an unknown father, Green grew up in Essendon. Torn between becoming an architect or a cartoonist after leaving Essendon High School, he studied architecture at the Melbourne Technical College because his mother warned: "You'll starve if you're a cartoonist."
At the age of 18 he enlisted in the Australian Army, and was attached to the 15th Brigade Army Intelligence in New Guinea. He drew cartoons that were published in the army's newspaper. Following his discharge from the army at the end of World War II, Green resumed his architectural studies but he abandoned architecture in favour of a postwar rehabilitation art course at the National Gallery of Victoria, where his tutors included Sir William Dargie. During this time he submitted cartoons to The Herald. When the paper's political cartoonist, Sammy Wells, went on holiday for six weeks in 1946, Green was asked to fill in for him. His work appealed to the editor-in-chief, John Williams, and in 1947 he was invited to join The Herald staff permanently. He continued to be a political cartoonist for the paper until he retired in 1986, after 40 years in that role. Green was responsible for introducing the daily "pocket" cartoon Weg's Day, a single-column topical comment, humorously presented, that appeared for the first time in 1949 and continued on the paper's front page for 38 years.
On 14 May 1949, Green married Joan Hettie Currell in Milton, Queensland.
Green continued working as a caricaturist and illustrator, with his work appearing in cricket books by Max Walker, on stamps, and in children's books.
Premiership posters
In the 1954 VFL season, Green began drawing premiership posters of the winning teams of the Victorian Football League (VFL) Grand Final for the Weekend Herald. By 1966, Green's posters had become so popular that The Herald started producing and selling them after the grand final. The posters, generally featuring a caricature of the winning club's mascot smiling gleefully, continued to sell around 100,000 copies each year. Although the series started in 1954, Green produced posters for all the grand finals back to 1897 to satisfy collectors. An exhibition of all 55 of Green's original posters was staged at the National Sports Museum in 2009. The tradition continued after Green's death, with Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight taking over as the illustrator of the posters from 2009. The family of the late cartoonist release a grand final poster every year in his memory from artwork supplied by Green before he died. He told family that he wanted his posters to go on after he was gone. His private company, Weg Art, supplies the posters each year.
Later life and death
On 14 January 2005, the 82-year-old Green confronted a burglar running through his back yard in Heathmont, Victoria. After confronting the man, Green called the police and then proceeded to take pen to paper and produce a caricature. His art was immediately recognisable to the local police. The offender was soon apprehended at a local shop as the cartoon clearly showed the man responsible.
Green died on 29 December 2008 at the Maroondah Hospital; he was survived by his wife Joan, daughter Lynette, and son Ian.
Honours
In June 2001, Green received the Medal of the Order of Australia "for service to art as a cartoonist and illustrator, and to the community, particularly through the Good Friday Appeal of the Royal Children's Hospital."
In 2003, he received the Jim Russell Award from the Australian Cartoonists' Association in acknowledgement of his lifelong contribution to the profession of cartooning.
In 2009, the Melbourne Press Club posthumously bestowed on him the Quill Award for Lifetime Achievement.
References
External links
http://wegart.com.au
1923 births
2008 deaths
Australian editorial cartoonists
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Australian Football League
The Herald (Melbourne) people
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Bammigatti is a village in Dharwad district of Karnataka, India.
Demographics
As of the 2011 Census of India there were 806 households in Bammigatti and a total population of 3,731 consisting of 1,945 males and 1,786 females. There were 424 children ages 0-6.
References
Villages in Dharwad district
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The Apold () is a left tributary of the river Secaș in Romania. It discharges into the Secaș in Apoldu de Jos. Its length is and its basin size is .
References
Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Sibiu County
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Jonas Johansson (born March 18, 1984) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played with HA74 in the Swedish Division 2 (Div.2).
Playing career
Johansson was drafted in the 1st round, 28th overall, by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He was traded on October 23, 2003, to the Washington Capitals with Bates Battaglia for Steve Konowalchuk and the Capitals' 3rd round choice in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.
Johansson started his hockey career with the Swedish Jönköping-based club HV71's junior team in 1999 and played with them for three seasons before moving to North America. In total he played 26 games, totaling 15 goals and 19 assists for 34 points in the Swedish junior league. In the Swedish elite league Elitserien during the 2001-02 season, he appeared in five regular games and two playoff games for HV71.
During the 2005–06 season with the Hershey Bears, Johansson scored three points in one game on January 6, 2006, against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. In the same season, he also appeared in his only NHL game, going scoreless with the Capitals. After two seasons playing with the Bears, Johansson was loaned to the Grand Rapids Griffins on February 27, 2007. In early May 2007, after playing ice hockey for five seasons in North America, he signed a two-year deal with his former Swedish club HV71 in the Swedish elite league Elitserien.
On May 19, 2009, Johansson signed a one-year contract with VIK Västerås HK of the HockeyAllsvenskan for the 2009–10 season.
On August 31, 2010, Johansson signed a one-contract with SG Cortina in Italy for the 2010–11 season. After two productive seasons with Cortina, Johansson continued to play in the Serie A, but signed a one-year contract with rivals, HC Alleghe on October 12, 2012.
On April 30, 2013, Johansson opted to leave Italian hockey, and signed a contract with Norwegian club Frisk Asker Ishockey of the GET-ligaen. During the 2013–14 season, Johansson scored at a point-per-game pace with 28 goals and 44 points, to be amongst the league's top scorers. He tenure with Frisk was limited to one season as on May 22, 2014, he signed a one-year deal with German second league club Lausitzer Füchse.
After a season's hiatus, Johansson returned to competitive hockey during the 2018–19 season, agreeing to a contract with Swedish Division 2 club, HA74, on 20 December 2018.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards
AHL Calder Cup champion with Hershey Bears in 2006.
Swedish Champion with HV71 in 2008.
Coppa Italia champion 2012 with SG Cortina
All star team coppa Italia 2012
References
External links
1984 births
Colorado Avalanche draft picks
Frisk Asker Ishockey players
Grand Rapids Griffins players
HC Alleghe players
Hershey Bears players
Kamloops Blazers players
Lausitzer Füchse players
Living people
National Hockey League first round draft picks
People from Jönköping
SG Cortina players
South Carolina Stingrays players
SønderjyskE Ishockey players
Stavanger Oilers players
Swedish ice hockey right wingers
IF Troja/Ljungby players
VIK Västerås HK players
Washington Capitals players
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Chester Simmons III (born July 24, 1982), better known as Tre Simmons, is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Odessa, Green River CC and Washington before playing professionally in Greece, Spain, Israel, Czech Republic, Russia, Puerto Rico and France. Simmons was named EuroChallenge Final Four MVP in 2013.
College career
Simmons played college basketball at Odessa College, Green River Community College and the University of Washington. He was named to the 2004-05 season's All-Pac-10 First Team.
Professional career
Simmons began his professional career in 2006 when he joined the Greek League club PAOK. He then moved to the Spanish League and ULEB Cup club Gran Canaria for the 2006-07 season, but in the middle of the season moved to Israel and signed for the Superleague club Hapoel Galil Elyon. The following season he moved to Hapoel Holon with whom he won the league championship.
He joined the Euroleague club Maccabi Tel Aviv for the 2008-09 season. For the 2009-10 season he signed with Hapoel Jerusalem. From 2010 to 2012 he played for ČEZ Nymburk in Czech Republic where he won Czech National Championship and the Czech National Cup. In June 2012 he signed with Krasnye Krylya Samara of Russia for the 2012-13 season. In July 2013, he returned to ČEZ Nymburk. On May 29, 2015, he signed with Cangrejeros de Santurce of Puerto Rico for the 2015 BSN season.
On November 29, 2015, he signed with Hapoel Tel Aviv.
On August 26, 2016, he signed with French club Antibes Sharks.
On December 18, 2017, he returned to Israel for a third stint, signing with Hapoel Afula of the Liga Leumit for the rest of the season. One day later, he made his debut in a 94–92 win over Maccabi Hod HaSharon, recording 22 points, four assists and four rebounds.
On November 8, 2018, he announced his retirement from playing professional basketball.
References
External links
Euroleague.net profile
Eurobasket.com profile
FIBA.com profile
1982 births
Living people
ABA League players
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Greece
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Russia
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American expatriate basketball people in the Czech Republic
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Seattle
BC Krasnye Krylia players
Big3 players
Cangrejeros de Santurce basketball players
CB Gran Canaria players
Basketball Nymburk players
Garfield High School (Seattle) alumni
Green River Gators men's basketball players
Hapoel Afula players
Hapoel Galil Elyon players
Hapoel Holon players
Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. players
Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C. players
Israeli Basketball Premier League players
Liga ACB players
Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. players
Odessa Wranglers men's basketball players
Olympique Antibes basketball players
P.A.O.K. BC players
Shooting guards
Small forwards
Washington Huskies men's basketball players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people
American men's 3x3 basketball players
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In the Scottish Parliament, the Leader of the Opposition (more formally, the Leader of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament) is an unofficial title held by the leader of the largest political party in the Scottish Parliament that is not in government.
Unlike in the Parliament at Westminster where there is an Official Opposition to the government of the day, all parties in the Scottish Parliament that are not in government are all technically on the same footing as 'opposition parties'.
Since May 2021, this has been Douglas Ross of the Scottish Conservatives, who succeeded Ruth Davidson.
To date the office has been held by 13
individuals, three from the Scottish National Party, seven from the Scottish Labour Party and three from the Scottish Conservative Party.
List of Leaders of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament
See also
First Minister of Scotland
Deputy First Minister of Scotland
Opposition Parties of the Scottish Parliament
Scottish Parliament
Scottish Government
References
Scottish Parliament
Opposition leaders
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Lifkuh (, also Romanized as Līfkūh; also known as Līfkū Khandān) is a village in Chubar Rural District, Ahmadsargurab District, Shaft County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 571, in 142 families.
References
Populated places in Shaft County
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Marcos Churio (born 4 October 1900) was an Argentine professional golfer.
Churio was born in Mar del Plata. He turned professional in 1920, and competed in Europe between 1931 and 1939, where his best tournament finish was 5th place in the 1931 Southport Open in England. That year, he was 7th in the British Open at Carnoustie.
Churio's brother, Pedro, won several tournaments in Argentina and later designed many golf courses. His nephew, Martin Pose, won the French Open in 1939.
Churio won the Argentine Open in three decades, in 1926, 1934 and 1943. He also finished runner-up on six occasions, in 1928, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1936 and 1937.
Professional wins
Argentine wins (16)
1925 Buenos Aires Professional Tournament
1926 Argentine PGA Championship, Argentine Open
1928 South Open
1929 South Open
1930 Argentine PGA Championship
1931 South Open, Center Open, Argentine PGA Championship
1932 Abierto del Litoral, Argentine PGA Championship
1934 Argentine Open
1941 Abierto del Litoral, Mendoza Open
1942 South Open
1943 Argentine Open
Other wins (2)
1926 Uruguay Open
1939 Uruguay Open
Team appearances
Great Britain–Argentina Professional Match (representing Argentina): 1939
References
Argentine male golfers
1900 births
Year of death unknown
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Olha Orlova
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Olha (Olga) Orlova (; born 9 October 1984) is a Ukrainian former figure skater. She was the 2001 Crystal Skate of Romania bronze medalist, 2004 Ukrainian national silver medalist, and placed 26th at the 2004 European Championships.
Programs
Competitive highlights
JGP: Junior Grand Prix
References
External links
Tracings.net profile
Ukrainian female single skaters
1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Odessa
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María Luisa Chiappe
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María Luisa Chiappe Pulido is a Colombian economist and businesswoman. She served as Ambassador of Colombia to Venezuela from 2009 to 2010 during the Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis that led to both countries recalling their respective ambassadors and signalled a weakening of diplomatic relations between the two neighbouring nations. Before her appointment as ambassador, Chiappe worked as President of the Colombo-Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, and had served as Banking Superabundant of Colombia and as Director of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE).
Ambassadorship
On 13 March President Álvaro Uribe Vélez appointed Chiappe as Ambassador of Colombia to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Chiappes officially presented her Letters of Credence to Vice President of Venezuela Ramón A Carrizales Rengifo on 3 April. In 2010, President Uribe accused the Venezuelan government of permitting the FARC and ELN guerrillas to seek safe haven in its territory, following the Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis; on July 22 the Colombian foreign ministry announced that Ambassador Chiappe, would be recalled "to evaluate the situation", following which they would present evidence at the OAS.
Selected works
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Pontifical Xavierian University alumni
University of Los Andes (Colombia) alumni
Colombian economists
Ambassadors of Colombia to Venezuela
Directors of the National Planning Department of Colombia
Colombian women ambassadors
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Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
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The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) is an exhibition and performance space and resource center located at 120 College Street on Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville, North Carolina dedicated to preserving and continuing the legacy of educational and artistic innovations of Black Mountain College (BMC). BMCM+AC achieves its mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications and public programs.
History
Arts advocate Mary Holden Thompson founded BMCM+AC in 1993 to celebrate the history of Black Mountain College as a forerunner in progressive interdisciplinary education and to explore its extraordinary impact on modern and contemporary art, dance, theater, music, and performance. Today, the museum remains committed to educating the public about BMC's history and raising awareness of its extensive legacy. BMCM+AC's goal is to provide a gathering point for people from a variety of backgrounds to interact through art, ideas, and discourse.
Location
BMCM+AC was first based out of founder Mary Holden Thompson's house in Black Mountain, NC. From 2003 to 2018, BMCM+AC was housed in a storefront gallery at 56 Broadway. In September 2018, BMCM+AC opened a new space at 120 College Street, a relocation and expansion to a newly renovated building on Pack Square Park in the heart of the city. The new 6,000 square foot space doubled the museum's footprint and includes 2,500 square feet of flexible exhibition/event space with a seating capacity for 180, a permanent Black Mountain College history and research center, an expanded library and education center with over 1,500 BMC-related texts, and on-site storage for the museum's permanent collection and research center.
Timeline
1993 – Founding of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
1995 – A Black Mountain College reunion is organized and attended by over 100 alumni.
1997 – BMCM+AC launches an ongoing oral history program dedicated to documenting Black Mountain College alumni.
2002 – A regional festival called Under the Influence takes place, exploring the legacy of Black Mountain College through music, education and performance.
2003 – BMCM+AC opens a permanent museum gallery space in downtown Asheville at 56 Broadway Street.
2009 – The first annual international ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference is held, organized in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA).
2010 – The first annual {Re}HAPPENING is held, an experimental art event featuring over 100 artists held on the former grounds of Black Mountain College.
2010 – A partnership is established with UNCA to provide digitization and archival storage for the growing BMCM+AC archives.
2011 – An NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture grant is awarded.
2011 – A new online publication, the Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, is created.
2012 – The state of North Carolina moves Black Mountain College records to the Western Regional Archives in Oteen, NC, which further establishes Asheville as a center for BMC studies and strengthens BMCM+AC's partnership with the Archives.
2013 – The 80th anniversary of BMC's founding, and the 20th anniversary of BMCM+AC's founding.
2015 – The newly redesigned and renovated 56 Broadway gallery space has its grand reopening.
2016 – NEA awards BMCM+AC an Art Works grant for Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College.
2017 – BMCM+AC Performance Initiative and Active Archive programs begin.
2018 – BMCM+AC relocates to a new, permanent home at 120 College Street.
Exhibitions
Pieces from the permanent collection, as well as loaned works, are featured via a rotating schedule of temporary exhibitions, which are on display for an average of four months at time. Exhibitions display the many histories of Black Mountain College through shared themes or the work of singular alumni. Exhibitions are often connected to contemporary legacies of BMC through programming or complimentary installations.
BMCM+AC has also co-curated exhibitions with a variety of regional institutions, including the Hickory Museum of Art, Western Carolina University, Folk Art Center, the Western Regional Archives, and the Smith-McDowell House.
Collections
BMCM+AC Permanent Collection
The BMCM+AC permanent collection includes items with dates of creation ranging from 1931 to 2004. All items in the collection have a direct connection to the history of BMC, such as original college publications and other primary source materials. Components of the collection are photographs, ephemera, paintings, drawings/prints, poems/books/monographs/magazines/articles, writings/correspondences. The museum owns a variety of objects, including ceramics/clay, furniture/wood, sculptures, weavings/fiber, collages and mixed media pieces, broadsides/artists’ books and music/album covers.
In addition, the collection features a full set of the poetry journal The Black Mountain Review, which formed the group of writers known as the Black Mountain Poets. In Summer 2013, the museum acquired a 1971 work by BMC alumnus Robert Rauschenberg, Opal Gospel, 10 American Indian Poems, consisting of 10 moveable silkscreened acrylic panels of American Indian stories and imagery. Other noted pieces in the collection are furniture from the original Black Mountain College campuses: two benches from the Quiet House, a place for contemplation, meditation, and observance of special occasions at the Lake Eden campus and a desk designed by Josef Albers. BMCM+AC has an original Black Mountain College directional sign from the Lake Eden Campus, which is displayed in the museum library. The collection features many other works by various alumni, faculty and key figures of Black Mountain College including, among many others, Ruth Asawa, Ray Johnson, Kenneth Noland, Charles Olson, M. C. Richards, Dorothea Rockburne, Suzi Gablik and Susan Weil. The museum also manages image requests on behalf of the Hazel Larsen Archer Estate. Hazel Larsen Archer was the first full-time instructor of photography at Black Mountain College, and her photographs are among the most well-known documentation of the people and daily activities of the college.
BMCM+AC has been facilitating oral history documentation since 1999, resulting in a collection of recorded interviews with 69 BMC alumni as of 2019. BMCM+AC also has a research library, which includes approximately 400 BMC-related resources in audio, video and book form. These resources, in addition to the aforementioned oral histories, are available to museum visitors and members as a part the museum's publicly accessible resource center.
In addition to the museum's regional use of the collection in exhibitions, the collection is also accessed nationally and internationally by means of traveling exhibitions and loans to other institutions. Works from BMCM+AC's permanent collection have been loaned to the exhibitions Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Wexner Center for the Arts and Hammer Museum), Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends at the Museum of Modern Art, Black Mountain College and Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933 - 1957 at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, among others.
The Jargon Society
In 2012, BMCM+AC was chosen as the receiving institution for the remaining publications and archive of The Jargon Society, a small press publisher founded in 1951 by Jonathan Williams. The archive currently includes over 70 titles out of the total 115 Jargon titles. Of the 115 originals in the Jargon catalogue, approximately 85 are books and another 30 are broadsides, pamphlets and other publications. The museum has continued publication under the imprint. The most recent Jargon title as of 2019 is The Black Mountain College Anthology of Poetry, produced in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press.
Programs
{Re}HAPPENING
The {Re}HAPPENING, an annual multidisciplinary art event, honors the interdisciplinary nature of Black Mountain College and pays tribute to the innovations of that community of artists. Hosted on the former BMC campus at Lake Eden, NC, the site-specific event launches a contemporary platform for artists and attendees to experience creativity in the present day.
Taking its name from what is widely considered to be the first ‘Happening’ in the United States—from John Cage’s emphasis on chance and the observer as vital components in artistic creation—the {Re}HAPPENING reimagines BMC's tradition of Saturday night parties and performances. Cage's proto-Happening took place at BMC in 1952 and featured Cage reading Meister Eckhart, Charles Olson and M.C. Richards reciting poetry, Robert Rauschenberg showing his White Paintings and playing recordings on an old victrola, and Merce Cunningham dancing.
Each year, the {Re}HAPPENING features over 80 local, regional, national, and international artists collaborating on 30+ visual art installations, new media presentations, and performances dependent upon wildly innovative visual and participatory components. As with Cage's 1952 event, the {Re}HAPPENING is a democratizing art experience, participatory and interactive rather than hierarchical.
Annual conference
The ReVIEWING Black Mountain College Conference is annual academic event which engages a variety of humanities disciplines. Hosted on the campus of UNC Asheville, the conferences of the past have included film screenings, musical and dramatic productions, hands-on workshops and lectures by new and established scholars.
Performance Initiative
Starting in fall 2017 with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s HESH Program, BMCM+AC has worked to bring international artists to the region, with an emphasis on how art can strengthen community and deepen conversations around social justice. This work extends the legacy of Black Mountain College, which brought international artists previously unknown in the region to interact with the culture and practices of Western North Carolina. The stream of programs began in September 2017 with the Southeast premiere of Black Mountain Songs, an expansive choral and visual celebration of Black Mountain College performed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and curated by Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry. Other projects have included choreographer Silvana Cardell’s Supper, People on the Move, a dance performance inspired by themes of migration and the complex experience of dislocation. This performance was accompanied by an exhibition of photographs and narratives telling the story of “People on the Move” in the Western North Carolina community. This initiative continued in the spring with the Southeast premiere of Dance Heginbotham and Maira Kalman’s The Principles of Uncertainty, an evening-length dance-theater work by choreographer John Heginbotham and author/illustrator Maira Kalman.
Active Archive
In 2017, BMCM+AC launched an initiative called Active Archive, a stream of programs that pairs the museum's collection with contemporary artists, curators, and cultural thinkers. Components of the initiative include an artist's residency program and commissions of new work. The first artist resident was interdisciplinary artist Martha McDonald, whose output as part of Active Archive included a curated exhibition and catalogue, as well as community programs such as a performance, conference presentation, and gallery talks.
Publications
The BMCM+AC has published numerous dossiers, exhibition catalogues and books about Black Mountain College, its teachers, and alumni.
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies
Black Mountain College Studies is an online peer-reviewed publication of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
Exhibition catalogues
M.C. Richards, Centering: 100 Years, Life + Art
Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College
Zola Marcus: Kinetic Origins
Randy Shull/Wide Open: Architecture + Design at BMCM+AC
Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter
Convergence/Divergence: Exploring Black Mountain College + Chicago’s New Bauhaus/Institute of Design
Dan Rice at Black Mountain College: Painter Among the Poets
Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design
John Urbain: No Ideas But Things
In Site: Late Works by Irwin Kremen
Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011
From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson
Dorothea Rockburne: Astronomy Drawings
Emerson Woelffer: At the Center + At the Edge
Hazel Larsen Archer: Black Mountain College Photographer. Essays by David Vaughan, Connie Bostic, and Erika Zarow
ACTIVE ARCHIVE: Martha McDonald
Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College
VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek
Books
Basil King: Between Painting and Writing. Poetry chapbook by Basil King, 2016
Backpacking in the Hereafter. Poetry chapbook by M.C. Richards. Edited by Julia Connor, 2014
Cynthia Homire: Vision Quest. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2014
Black Mountain Days. Michael Rumaker, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2003
Remembering Black Mountain College. Mary Emma Harris, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 1995
Dossiers
The Dossiers focus on specific BMC alumni and serve both as exhibition catalogues and critical studies.
The museum has published dossiers featuring BMC alumni including Joseph Fiore, Fannie Hillsmith, Lore Kadden Lindenfeld, Ray Johnson, Susan Weil, Michael Rumaker, Gwendolyn Knight and Gregory Masurovsky.
References
External links
BMCM+AC website
BMCM+AC library catalog
BMCM+AC bookstore
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies
{Re}HAPPENING
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College Annual Conference
Museums in Asheville, North Carolina
Arts centers in North Carolina
Art museums and galleries in North Carolina
Art museums established in 1993
1993 establishments in North Carolina
Tourist attractions in Asheville, North Carolina
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Darmarjan (, also Romanized as Dārmarjān) is a village in Bask-e Kuleseh Rural District, in the Central District of Sardasht County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 39, in 7 families.
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Populated places in Sardasht County
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Teteringen
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Teteringen is a city district / village in the northeast of Breda in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Breda, about 4 km north of the city centre.
Teteringen was a separate municipality until 1997, when it became part of Breda.
References
External links
Map of the former municipality, around 1868.
Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1997
Populated places in North Brabant
Former municipalities of North Brabant
Breda
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Manuel Herrick
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Manuel Herrick nicknamed the "Okie Jesus Congressman" (September 20, 1876 – January 11, 1952) was a United States Representative from Oklahoma for one term, from March 4, 1921 to March 3, 1923.
Early life
Born Emanuel Herrick in Perry Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio on September 20, 1876, he moved with his parents, John Emanuel Herrick and Belinda Kale Herrick, to Greenwood County, Kansas in 1877. Herrick was self-educated and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Later, he settled in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma Territory. In 1893, Herrick moved to Perry and became interested in agriculture and stock raising.
Congressional career
At the age of forty-two, Herrick was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress. Herrick won the Republican nomination after the popular incumbent Republican congressman, Dick T. Morgan, died unexpectedly on the last day of filing, allowing Herrick to take the nomination unopposed. Herrick was elected in November 1920 based on the strength of Warren G. Harding's showing in his district. Herrick served from March 4, 1921 to March 3, 1923. He unsuccessfully ran for reelection in 1922, losing in the Republican primary. As a Congressman, Herrick was one of the more colorful members of that body. During his one-and-only term, Herrick scandalized his fellow legislators by soliciting marriage proposals from beauty queens, only to claim that he was gathering information for intended legislation banning beauty pageants. Herrick took a similar approach to his 1925 arrest for moonshining, claiming to be an undercover agent for the Internal Revenue Service. Herrick was also notable for his prowess as a barnstorming aviator, and for claiming to be Jesus Christ reborn (his given name was Immanuel). His mental health was often in question and his eccentricities and lack of knowledge of the governmental process overshadowed his diligence for constituents.
Later life and death
After leaving Congress, Herrick moved to California in 1933. He would settle in Plumas County, California in 1937 and ran unsuccessfully for Congress several times while in California. Herrick mysteriously disappeared during a Sierra blizzard on January 11, 1952, while on a trip to his mining claim eight miles northeast of Quincy, California. A month later, Herrick was found dead in a snowbank two miles from his cabin on February 29, 1952. His remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Quincy Cemetery in Quincy.
Bibliography
Aldrich, Gene. Okie Jesus Congressman (The Life of Manuel Herrick). Oklahoma City: Times-Journal Publishing Co., 1974.
References
A Hundred Years of Oklahoma and the Congress: World War I and the Roaring Twenties
External links
Oklahoma Encyclopedia of History & Culture - Herrick, Manuel
1876 births
1952 deaths
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma
People from Tuscarawas County, Ohio
People from Plumas County, California
Farmers from Oklahoma
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
Oklahoma Republicans
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Sensitivity of explosives is the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact, heat, or friction. Current in-use standard methods of mechanical (impact and friction) senstivity determination differ by the sample preparation (constant mass or volume is usually used; pile or pressed pellet), sample arrangement (confined/unconfined sample etc), instrument type, go/not go criteria, and the statistical analysis of results.
Sensitivity, stability and brisance are three of the most significant properties of explosives that affect their use and application. All explosive compounds have a certain amount of energy required to initiate. If an explosive is too sensitive, it may go off accidentally. A safer explosive is less sensitive and will not explode if accidentally dropped or mishandled. However, such explosives are more difficult to initiate intentionally.
Explosive train
Less sensitive explosives can be initiated by smaller quantities of more sensitive explosives, called primers or detonators, such as blasting caps. The use of increasingly less sensitive explosive materials to create an escalating chain reaction is known as an explosive train, initiation sequence, or firing train.
Classifications
High explosives are conventionally subdivided into two explosives classes, differentiated by sensitivity:
Primary explosives are extremely sensitive to mechanical shock, friction, and heat, to which they will respond by burning rapidly or detonating.
Secondary explosives, also called base explosives, are relatively insensitive to shock, friction, and heat.
The dataset for 150 CHNOFCl energetic compounds is available.
References
Explosives
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Little Dee
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Little Dee is a webcomic by Christopher Baldwin about a little girl lost in the woods who is befriended by three animals. The animals talk; Dee doesn't.
Publication history
Begun on June 7, 2004, Little Dee is the last of several strips completed by Baldwin in hopes of syndication. His popular and long-running strip Bruno was never intended to be syndicated, but Baldwin turned to creating more family-friendly and accessible comics.
On May 30, 2006, Little Dee began appearing on Comics.com, beginning with two weeks of "reruns" to initiate new readers. (Comics.com was a service of United Media.) On his website on June 13, 2006, Chris Baldwin stated that the deal is a developmental deal, for "a year, give or take, possibly leaning towards syndication depending on how things go." As of August 8 (possibly earlier) the strip was no longer available on Comics.com.
Each strip was accompanied by a "Buy This Artwork!" link. The art is offered for sale in its original form, without its final shading, usually in two rows (which were combined into one on the web version), 7.75"x10.75" on vellum Bristol paper sized 9" x 12". Once purchased, the name of the buyer replaced the "Buy" link, accompanied by the date and time of purchase.
Little Dee's final strip appeared on Tuesday April 6, 2010. To mark the occasion Baldwin offered a limited edition print of the characters for sale, incorporating a customized sketch and signature for each customer. The edition quickly sold out.
In late May 2010 Baldwin announced that the strip would begin a complete re-run on its original site, "larger and with more annotations", commencing June 7, 2010, the strip's sixth anniversary.
Characters and general plot
The strip starts with Dee lost in the woods. Lonely, she hugs the first thing she can find, a bear called Ted. Ted can't find it in his heart to eat such a cute girl, so he adopts her, much to the chagrin of his friend Vachel, a vulture. Blake, a domesticated dog who has become feral, convinces the others that they should look for Dee's parents, which they do periodically. The four live together in a cave inexplicably equipped with furniture, running water, and electricity.
Dee's real name is not known; it is the name Ted has given her. Some of their time is spent searching for Dee's parents; much of the rest is spent in the cave or on other adventures.
Dee is an archetypal child: young, cute, innocent, and fearless. She represents all that is simple and cheerfully adventurous. She does not speak, which adds to her childlikeness and seeming naïvete, yet she often is the boldest of all the characters.
Ted is sensible, a parent, a mediator. Dee is most often seen hugging him. He is fiercely protective of her. The only thing that rattles Ted is Dee's misadventures. Ted is very fond of chocolate.
Blake is the link for the other animals to the human world as he is domesticated, yet now lives in the woods. He is good-natured and somewhat naive and gullible — not the brightest of the characters. He considers the group his "pack" and Ted the "alpha."
Vachel is the cynic and the curmudgeon of the group. He is the most likely to make snide remarks or see the dark side of things. Initially the least affectionate toward Dee, he was eventually won over. Atypically, one of his hobbies is knitting. He occasionally recounts events in his earlier life, such as when he lived with several other animals in a library and when he was part of a monastery of roller-skating monks.
Kendra is a young rabbit who approaches most subjects with an intense enthusiasm that the main characters find less than endearing. She and Dee are sometimes playmates.
Pudú is a pudú, who lives in Chile and is constantly visiting Dee and her friends in the United States. Pudú has an easygoing, naïve personality. He is also highly energetic (as if hyped up by caffeine), and is quite a pushover. Series concerning Pudú's visits usually result in him offering to go home and fetch something to help with the current situation, only to return three to six months later and find that the object he has fetched now has nothing to do with what's currently happening.
The Alligator is an alligator who has a very strong crush on Blake and seems totally unaware that Blake does not love him in return. Ted often kicks him out of the cave when he visits Blake (due to his fear that he will eat one of his friends), so he has taken to visiting in secret, despite the fact that Blake is agitated by this.
Alida is an elephant who has a crush on Vachel. In contrast to Blake's relationship with the Alligator, Vachel somewhat returns Alida's affection.
A couple of fish appear from time to time, usually chattering away while one of the main characters is about to drown. They eventually end up saving whoever is in trouble at the last possible second, by such methods as "poking him in the bum with a pin".
The Terranauts are a pair of fish (possibly the same ones) who spend some time exploring dry land and its inhabitants. They wear diving suits full of water, walk on their tail flukes and use their front fins like arms. The suits are supplied with fresh water by hoses from somewhere underwater.
Books
Cartoon compilations published to date
Little Dee (Volume 1)
Little Dee (Volume 2)
Little Dee (Volume 3)
Little Dee (Volume 4)
Reception
The Washington Post termed Little Dee "charming," while others called it "innocent and funny" and "age appropriate".
References
External links
2000s webcomics
American comedy webcomics
Concluded webcomics
2004 webcomic debuts
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Chaouki Sammari
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Chaouki Sammari (born 20 March 1972) is a Tunisian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 48 kg at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
References
1972 births
Living people
Tunisian male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers of Tunisia
Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
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Milova
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The Milova () is a right tributary of the river Mureș in Romania. It discharges into the Mureș in the village Milova. Its length is and its basin size is .
References
Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Arad County
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Gmina Jaktorów
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Gmina Jaktorów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Grodzisk Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Jaktorów, which lies approximately west of Grodzisk Mazowiecki and south-west of Warsaw.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 10,090.
Villages
Gmina Jaktorów contains the villages and settlements of Bieganów, Budy Michałowskie, Budy Zosine, Budy-Grzybek, Chylice, Chylice-Kolonia, Chylice-Osada, Grabnik, Grądy, Henryszew, Jaktorów, Jaktorów-Kolonia, Jaktorów-Osada, Kołaczek, Mariampol, Maruna, Międzyborów, Sade Budy and Stare Budy.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Jaktorów is bordered by the town of Żyrardów and by the gminas of Baranów, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Radziejowice and Wiskitki.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
Jaktorow
Grodzisk Mazowiecki County
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Tomasz Tymosiak
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Tomasz Tymosiak (born 19 March 1993) is a Polish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Stomil Olsztyn.
Career
Tymosiak began his career at Górnik Łęczna. On 17 March 2012, he made his debut in professional football as a part of the Bogdanka Łęczna squad. In July 2015, he moved to III liga side Motor Lublin. On 30 June 2016, he signed a new one-year contract with Motor.
On 29 June 2018, Tymosiak signed for Górnik Łęczna.
References
External links
1993 births
Górnik Łęczna players
Motor Lublin players
OKS Stomil Olsztyn players
Polish footballers
Living people
Sportspeople from Lublin
Ekstraklasa players
I liga players
II liga players
Association football midfielders
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Bob's (disambiguation)
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Bob's is the first Brazilian fast food chain, founded in 1952.
Bob's may also refer to:
Businesses
Bob's Big Boy, an American restaurant chain
Bob's-Cola, a defunct American soft drink company
Bob's Discount Furniture, a privately owned chain in the eastern United States
Bob's Red Mill, an Oregon-based grain company
Bob's Stores, a defunct clothing retail chain of the United States
Bob's Watches, an online marketplace for the resale of Rolex watches
Places
Bob's Lake (disambiguation), three lakes in Ontario, Canada
Bob's Creek (Ontario), Canada
Other
Bob's Burgers, an American animated sitcom
Bob's Return, a racehorse
See also
Bob (disambiguation)
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Maumee Bay State Park
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Maumee Bay State Park is a public recreation area located on the shores of Lake Erie, five miles east of Toledo, in Jerusalem Township, Lucas County, Ohio, United States. Major features of the state park include a lodge and conference center, cottages, camping facilities, golf course, nature center, and two-mile-long interpretive boardwalk. Common activities include hiking, picnicking, fishing, hunting, boating, swimming, winter sports, and geocaching. The site was acquired by the state in 1974 and became a state park in 1975.
Gallery
References
External links
Maumee Bay State Park Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Maumee Bay State Park Map Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Maumee Bay State Park Lodge and Conference Center Xanterra Parks & Resorts
Protected areas of Lucas County, Ohio
State parks of Ohio
Protected areas established in 1975
1975 establishments in Ohio
Nature centers in Ohio
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Hygrocybe splendidissima
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Hygrocybe splendidissima, commonly known as the splendid waxcap, is a mushroom of the waxcap genus Hygrocybe. Found in Europe, it was originally described as new to science in 1960 by British mycologist Peter Darbishire Orton as a species of Hygrophorus. The type was collected by Orton in fields near Membury, Devon, in 1957 Meinhard Moser transferred the species to the genus Hygrocybe in 1967. Derek Reid thought that the fungus was more appropriately classified as a form of the scarlet waxy cap, Hygrocybe punicea.
See also
List of Hygrocybe species
References
External links
Fungi of Europe
splendidissima
Fungi described in 1960
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Irlande Côté is a Canadian actress from Quebec.
Biography
She is most noted for her performance in the film A Colony (Une colonie), for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards.
Filmography
Television
2015 : 7$ par jour : Irlande
2016 : Mémoires vives : Gabriella
2019 : Les Ephémères : Maïka
2020 : Claire et les vieux : Claire
2020 : Portrait-robot : Romane Lever
2021 : Comment tu t’appelles? : Irlande
2021 : Plan B : Mégane
2022 : Les bracelets rouges : Lili
Film
2013 : Louis Cyr : L'Homme le plus fort du monde : Louis Cyr's Sister
2018 : A Colony : Camille
2019 : Le Prince de Val-Bé : Jordane-Ève
2019 : Recrue : Marianne
2021 : Magasin général : Madeleine
2021 : 18 ans : Charlie
2021 : Boulevard 132 : Josette
2022 : Feu rouge : Manue
2022 : 1+1+1 : Flavie
References
External links
Canadian film actresses
Canadian child actresses
Actresses from Quebec
French Quebecers
Living people
2009 births
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Selvaraj
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Selvaraj, also known as Kavithapithan, was elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Kolathur constituency in the 1996 elections. The constituency was reserved for candidates from the Scheduled Castes. He was a candidate of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party.
References
Tamil Nadu MLAs 1996–2001
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians
Year of birth missing
Possibly living people
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The International Working-Class Movement
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The International Working-Class Movement is a projected seven-volume history of the communist movement, edited by Moscow's Institute of the International Working Class Movement. Its first volume was chaired by Boris Ponomarev.
References
Bibliography
1976 non-fiction books
Russian-language books
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Damien Starkey
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Damien Joel Starkey (born October 20, 1982) is an American producer, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has played many roles in several bands, served as a vocalist for Society Red and Burn Season, bassist for Puddle of Mudd, and he also owns a company called Give 2 Get Music Group in which he is a music supervisor and composer for TV and film music. Damien has scored and wrote music for more than 70 TV shows and movies including American Reunion, Nitro Circus Movie, Freeheld, Pawn Stars, Bar Rescue, and Undercover Boss. As a producer he has written for and produced many notable artists including platinum selling bands Saliva, Daughtry and Avril Lavigne. The album "Project X" by Upchurch was co-written and produced by Damien and peaked on the album chart at #4 and #2 on the Hip Hop Chart. Damien was back on tour playing bass in Saliva for most of 2018.
Auditioning for Stone Temple Pilots: Via social media, it was later confirmed that Damien was in LA in April 2016 auditioning to be the new singer for Stone Temple Pilots. It was rumored that Starkey was only one of 8 singers selected by the band with them eventually choosing Jeff Gutt.
Damien also is CVO and managing partner in the music technology company Songlinkr.
Biography
Starkey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He moved to Jacksonville, Florida, at the age of 2, and began playing guitar at the age of 9. He started the early version of Burn Season with Bobby Amaru, vocalist of Saliva, at the age of 15. By the age of 18 they had a multimillion-dollar record deal with Elektra Records. Currently he lives in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
From 2007 to 2011 he was songwriter and singer for Society Red, with former Puddle of Mudd rhythm guitarist Adam Latiff and former lead guitarist of Puddle of Mudd Paul Phillips. Also in the band was Brad Stewart formerly of Shinedown who now plays in Fuel. In 2010, following the departure of bassist Doug Ardito, he joined Puddle of Mudd.
Influences
Starkey has been quoted as saying that he grew up listening to a wide variety of genres. Many artists have influenced him, such as Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Dr. Dre, and Bad Company.
Discography
Burn Season
Burn Season (2005)
This Long Time Coming (2011)
Sleepwalker [EP] (2012)
Society Red
Welcome To The Show (2009)
Music from the Nitro Circus Movie
Soundtrack for Nitro Circus 3D Movie (2012)
Filmography
TV shows
Bar Rescue (Spike TV)
Pawn Stars (History)
Worlds Worst Tenants (Spike TV)
Celebrity Wife Swap (ABC)
The Quest (Indie)
The Profit (CNBC)
60 Seconds to Sell (A&E)
Country Bucks (A&E)
Crazy Train (NBC)
ESPN College Football (ABC)
ESPN Nascar (ABC)
ESPN Winter XGames (ABC)
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC)
Total Divas (E!)
Strange Inheritance (FOX)
Auction Hunters (Spike TV)
Great Food Truck Race (Food Network)
Lets Ask America (ABC)
Wicked Flippah (Discovery)
Gigilos (Showtime)
Who Are You? (Nat Geographic)
Challenge Me America (FOX)
Polygamy USA (Nat Geo)
My Teen Is Pregnant and So Am I (TLC)
Honey Do (TLC)
Triggers: Weapons That Changed The World (Military Channel)
Meltdown (Nat Geo)
The Numbers Game (Nat Geo)
MMA Uncensored Live (Spike TV)
The Great Food Truck Race (Nat Geo)
Undercover Boss (CBS)
Films
American Reunion
Nitro Circus Movie 3D
Game of Your Life
Win Win
Freeheld
Secret Wedding
References
External links
Puddle of Mudd Official Site
Operator Official Site
1982 births
American rock bass guitarists
Living people
Musicians from Cincinnati
Guitarists from Ohio
American male bass guitarists
Puddle of Mudd members
21st-century American bass guitarists
21st-century American male musicians
Nu metal singers
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Sowme'eh Sara County () is a county in Gilan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Sowme'eh Sara. This county is located in the west of Gilan and is surrounded by Fuman County, Masal County and Bandar-e Anzali County. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 129,628, in 35,636 families. The county is subdivided into three districts: the Central District, Mirza Kuchek Janghli District, and Tulem District. The county has three cities: Sowme'eh Sara, Marjaghal, and Gurab Zarmikh.
References
اطلس گیتاشناسی استانهای ایران [Atlas Gitashenasi Ostanhai Iran] (Gitashenasi Province Atlas of Iran)
somehsara news agency: www.varannews.ir
Counties of Gilan Province
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Divisional General José María Bartolomé Imbert Duplessis (né Joseph Marie Barthélemy Imbert; (24 August 1798 in (now Le Plessis-Grammoire), Maine-et-Loire (Pays de la Loire), France – 14 May 1847 in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic) was a French-born Dominican military figure and a mayor of Moca.
Biography
José María Imbert was born as Joseph-Marie-Barthélemy Imbert in France, to Simon Imbert and Marie Anne du Plessis (from the house of the dukes of Richelieu) in Foudon, in the commune of Le Plessis-Grammoire, in the province of Maine-et-Loire, in the historical duchy of Anjou; he migrated to Moca and married María Francisca del Monte Sánchez (1807–1876) and begat 6 children, among them, Segundo Imbert.
By the beginning of March 1844 Matías Ramón Mella, became Governor of the District of Santiago and Military Chief of the area, and designated José María Imbert from Moca his lieutenant, the second in command of the army in Cibao. On March 29, 1844, the Haitian army of Gen. Jean-Louis Pierrot was approaching Santiago. The commander Matías Ramón Mella is caught out of town recruiting men for the improvised Dominican army will defend the country. José María Imbert managed the defense of the city with the help of Fernando Valerio, Ángel Antonio Reyes, and José María López. Imbert's role on the Battle of Santiago was crucial for the crushing victory over the Haitian Army. In 1845, Imbert being a lieutenant of Francisco Antonio Salcedo, he fought the Haitians in Beler defeating them again. Finished that campaign, he rejoined Moca, as Commander of Arms. From there he went to the same office at Puerto Plata, where he died in 1847.
He is buried at the Cathedral of Santiago, along with other heroes of the Independence and the Restoration Wars.
See also
Segundo Imbert
Antonio Imbert Barrera
Carmen Imbert Brugal
José María Cabral (director)
Furcy Fondeur
Pedro Eugenio Pelletier
References
1798 births
1847 deaths
People from Maine-et-Loire
Dominican Republic people of French descent
French emigrants to the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic military personnel
Dominican Republic independence activists
Mayors of places in the Dominican Republic
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St Serf's Inch or St Serf's Island is an island in Loch Leven, in south-eastern Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It was the home of a Culdee and then an Augustinian monastic community, St Serf's Inch Priory.
History
There was a monastic community on the island which was old in the 12th century. The monastery produced a series of Gaelic language charters from the 11th and 12th centuries which were translated into Latin in the late 12th century. It is from these that we know Macbeth, the King of Scots and his consort Gruoch, made an endowment of land to the priory. One of these charters purports to go back to Brude filius Dergard, that is Bruide mac Dargarto, King of the Picts (d. 706). Other of these charters record grants from Máel Dúin, Bishop of St Andrews (d. 1055), his successor Túathal (d. c. 1060), his successor Fothad mac Maíl Míchéil, King Máel Coluim III (1058–1093) and his wife Margaret, Ethelred, abbot of Dunkeld, and King Domnall Bán (1093-1097). Also among the collection of these translations is a record of a trial held c. 1128 and presided over by Causantín, Mormaer of Fife and magnum judex in Scotia, assisted by Dufgal filium Mocche and Meildoineneth filium Machedath; the trial pertained to the behaviour of one Robert "the Burgundian", the earliest recorded French settler north of the Forth, towards the monks of St Serf, and resulted in favour of the monks after Causantín bowed to the "superior knowledge" of the law held by "Dufgal".
Prior Andrew of Wyntoun, author of the 15th century historical work called Oryginalle Cronykil of Scotland included various unflattering stories about his monarch. Macbeth was described as a 'changeling' or 'Devil's child'. Andrew also recorded a number of tales that were referenced in William Shakespeare's 'Scottish Play', including a prophecy that Macbeth would never be killed by a man born of woman, his recognition by three 'Weird Sisters', and that his demise would only come when the wood of Birnam came to Dunsinane.
See also
List of islands of Scotland
Prior of Loch Leven
St Serf's Inch Priory
Footnotes
References
Barrow, G.W.S., "The Judex", in G.W.S. Barrow (ed.), The Kingdom of the Scots, (Edinburgh, 2003), pp. 57–67
Lawrie, Sir Archibald, Early Scottish Charters Prior to A.D. 1153, (Glasgow, 1905)
External links
Islands of Loch Leven
Tourist attractions in Perth and Kinross
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The Cymru Premier, known as the JD Cymru Premier for sponsorship reasons, is the national football league of Wales. It has both professional and semi-professional status clubs and is at the top of the Welsh football league system. Prior to 2002, the league was known as the League of Wales (LoW), but changed its name as part of a sponsorship deal to the Welsh Premier League. The league was rebranded as the Cymru Premier for the 2019–20 season.
Formation
The league was formed in October 1991 by Alun Evans, Secretary General of the Football Association of Wales (FAW), as he believed that the Welsh international football team was under threat from FIFA. The FAW, along with the other three home nations' associations (The Football Association, Irish Football Association and Scottish Football Association), had a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board (IFAB) and it was thought that many FIFA members were resentful of this and pressing for the four unions to unite into one combined side for the whole of the United Kingdom.
The new league was formed for the 1992–93 season, and officially launched on 15 August 1992. At the time, despite the FAW being a FIFA and UEFA member it had not previously organised a national league, only the Welsh Cup. Traditionally, the strongest teams in Wales had always played in the English leagues. Aberdare Athletic, Cardiff City, Merthyr Town, Newport County, Swansea City and Wrexham have all been members of the Football League, while many other Welsh based clubs have competed in the Northern Premier League and Southern Football League.
Because of historically poor north–south transport links within Wales (although these have improved in the post World War II years), it was often easier for Welsh clubs to travel east–west, so Welsh clubs tended to look east to England for competitors and many of the top semi-professional sides in Wales played in the English football league system; Bangor City were founder members of the Alliance Premier League (now the National League) in 1979 and reached the FA Trophy final in 1984, before transferring to the new League of Wales in 1992.
The formation of the League of Wales saw the start of a bitter dispute between the Football Association of Wales (FAW) and those non-League clubs who wanted to remain part of the English football pyramid. The 'Irate Eight', as they were dubbed, consisted of Bangor City, Barry Town, Caernarfon Town, Colwyn Bay, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport, Newtown and Rhyl. At the time, Cardiff City, Swansea City and Wrexham were playing in The Football League, and the FAW decided to allow those teams to continue to play in the English system, although they continued to compete in the Welsh Cup for a few more seasons. The success of these clubs in the Welsh Cups meant that they frequently competed in the European Cup Winners' Cup despite the fact that Wrexham had never played above the Second Division and Swansea had spent just two seasons in the First Division during the early 1980s, while Cardiff had been semi-regular members of the First Division from the 1920s up to 1962.
Prior to the inaugural season, Bangor City, Newtown and Rhyl reluctantly agreed to play in the League of Wales. However, as Rhyl's application to join the league was late, they were placed in the second level of the pyramid system. Because of FAW sanctions, the remaining five clubs were forced to play their home matches in England. Following a season in exile at Worcester City, five became four, as Barry Town joined the Welsh pyramid in time for the 1993–94 season.
A court ruling in 1995 allowed the remaining four clubs to return to Wales to play their home matches while still remaining within the English system; despite this victory, Caernarfon Town decided to join the League of Wales for the 1995–96 season. Colwyn Bay continued in the English pyramid for a further 24 years before transferring to the Welsh pyramid in 2019, leaving only two of the Irate Eight remaining - Newport County, who won promotion to the Football League in 2013, and Merthyr Town, the successor club to Merthyr Tydfil following its liquidation in 2010. In 2008, Wrexham were relegated from the Football League and more than 13 years later have still yet to return.
Conversely, in 1996 now-defunct English team Oswestry Town were accepted by the League of Wales and currently The New Saints are based in Oswestry (having moved from Llansantffraid, Powys in 2007). Another English club, Chester City, whose stadium sits on the England–Wales border, applied to join the Welsh Premier League after being expelled from the Football Conference in 2010 but were wound up almost immediately afterwards (their successor team, Chester F.C., opted to reapply within the English system).
For the first four seasons of the league's existence, its results were not featured on the Press Association's vidiprinter service and consequently had not appeared on the BBC's Final Score or Sky's Soccer Saturday. The PA added the league's results at the start of the 1996–97 season, which was also when the PA began providing the results for the Northern Irish league.
Structure
Promotion and relegation
Clubs are promoted to the Cymru Premier from the Cymru North in the north/ central Wales and the Cymru South in the south/ central Wales. Clubs who finish as champions of the feeder leagues, or as runners-up if the champions decide not to seek promotion, are promoted subject to an application for membership being received and accepted and the stadium and infrastructure safety criteria of the Cymru Premier being met.
No teams were promoted to the Welsh Premier League following the 2005–06 season. However, Cardiff Grange Quins, who finished bottom of the Welsh Premier League resigned leaving the league to operate with an odd number of clubs for 2006–07.
Eighteen clubs competed in the Welsh Premier League for the 2007–08 season as both Neath Athletic (Welsh Football League Division One) and Llangefni Town (Cymru Alliance) were promoted whilst Cwmbran Town were relegated to Welsh Football League Division One.
For 2008–09, Prestatyn Town played in the Welsh Premier League for the first time after promotion from the Cymru Alliance, whilst Llangefni Town were relegated to the Cymru Alliance after only one season.
The 2009–10 season saw Bala Town promoted to the Welsh Premier League after they won the Cymru Alliance in 2008–09. They replaced Caernarfon Town who were relegated to the Cymru Alliance.
At the end of the 2009–10 season, due to league restructuring Connah's Quay, Porthmadog, Welshpool Town, Caersws and Cefn Druids were relegated to the Cymru Alliance league. Rhyl were also relegated to the Cymru Alliance, despite finishing 6th in the Welsh Premier League, as they failed to meet the financial criteria required to gain the Welsh Premier League domestic licence. No teams were promoted to the Welsh Premier League from the feeder leagues.
League restructure for 2010–11 season
The 18 Welsh Premier League clubs met on 13 April 2008 and voted to support a restructuring proposal put forward by Welsh Premier League secretary John Deakin which would replace the single Welsh Premier League with a First and Second Division with 10 teams in each Division for the 2010–11 season. A further proposal was accepted that the Football Association of Wales should take full control of the Welsh Premier League and the existing Company, 'Football League of Wales Limited' should be dissolved. These proposals were forwarded to the Football Association of Wales for their consideration.
In June 2009 the clubs voted to accept an alternative proposal to reduce the premier League from 18 clubs to 12 for the 2010–11 season onwards.
Current structure
The season is split into two phases, and concludes with an end of season Playoff to determine Wales' fourth European side for the following year.
Phase 1
Phase 1 runs from MD1 in August through to MD22 in mid-January. Each team plays the other sides in the league twice, once at home and once away, making a total of twenty-two games.
After the conclusion of Phase 1, the league splits in two, with the top six teams forming the Championship Conference, and the bottom six teams forming the Playoff Conference. All points accumulated by teams in Phase 1 are brought forward into Phase 2
Phase 2
Phase 2 then runs from MD23 at the start of February through to MD32 at the end of April. Each side plays the other five in their conference twice more, home and away, to bring up a total of thirty-two games played.
The side finishing top of the Championship Conference after thirty-two games is the League Champion, and will qualify for the UEFA Champions League. To date six teams have won the title in twenty-six seasons.
The Runners-Up in the Championship Conference qualify automatically for the UEFA Europa League, whilst the remaining teams qualify for the end of season European Playoffs.
The bottom two sides in the Playoff Conference are relegated. Meanwhile, the side finishing top of the Playoff Conference (seventh place in the league table) advances to the European Playoffs.
Note that sides in the Playoff Conference can finish no higher in the table than seventh.
European Playoffs
The five teams finishing in 3rd–7th contest the end of season European Playoffs. 6th host 7th in a Quarter-Final, with the winner travelling to the 3rd placed side for the first Semi-Final, whilst 4th host 5th in the other.
The winners then meet at the ground of the highest ranked side in the Final, with the winner qualifying for the UEFA Europa League.
If one of the five teams has already qualified for Europe by winning the JD Welsh Cup, then the remaining four sides will contest the Playoffs directly from the Semi-Final stage.
If one of the top two sides wins the JD Welsh Cup, then the third placed side will automatically take up a UEFA Europa League spot. The remaining four sides will then contest the Playoffs directly from the Semi-Final stage.
European competition
The champions of the Welsh Premier League qualify, along with the champions of every European domestic league, for the UEFA Champions League. The second placed team qualifies for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. The teams in places 3 to 7 then play-off for the second Europa spot.
A place in the second round of the Europa League is also awarded to the winners of the Welsh Cup. If the winners of the Welsh Cup have already qualified for Europe via their league placing (i.e., finishing in the top two and winning the Cup), or if the Welsh Cup winners have finished in a playoff position, then the remaining four sides contest the playoff.
Results in Europe have been mixed – some notable successes, such as Barry Town's run to the first round proper of the UEFA Cup, drawing 3–3 with Aberdeen at Jenner Park, Bangor City's win over FC Sartid of Yugoslavia and Barry's 3–1 victory over FC Porto in the UEFA Champions League (albeit losing 3–9 on aggregate), stand alongside some heavy defeats, such as The New Saints' 12–1 aggregate defeat to Amica Wronki of Poland.
As of June 2019 the Cymru Premier is ranked 46th out of 55 members by the UEFA coefficient.
Media coverage
The advent of the League has brought increased media coverage for its member clubs, notably from the Western Mail and Daily Post, as well as local press.
Since the start of the 2007–08 season goals and results from the league have appeared on the Press Association vidiprinter service. Prior to this only the full-time score had been displayed although the half time score had also been shown from around 2000. Both Final Score and Sports Report now include the Cymru Premier results as part of their classified football results sequence and for a while Soccer Saturday also included the WPL results but has not done so in recent seasons.
On television, brief highlights from one of the day's games were featured on BBC Wales' sports results programme Wales on Saturday whilst the BBC also provided a 30-minute highlights programme for Welsh-language broadcaster, S4C, entitled "Y Clwb Pêl-droed". When the corporation lost the international broadcast rights to BSkyB at the end of the 2003/4 season, S4C won the secondary rights package which included highlights of the national team and all domestic rights. Sgorio took over the "Clwb Pêl-droed" slot previously produced by the BBC and in 2010/11 the half-hour highlights programme was dropped in favour of one live game per week. S4C broadcasts in Wales and throughout the rest of the UK via digital satellite with an interactive option for English-language commentary available via digital satellite.
As of the 2018/19 season, S4C show one live game per matchweek from either the league, Welsh Cup or Scottish Challenge Cup if a Welsh team is involved. They also stream all live televised matches on the Sgorio Facebook page, as well as streaming an additional ten per season from these competitions exclusively online.
Weekly highlights of all league games are shown on S4C on a Monday night at 17:30, and thereafter on Sgorio's social media and YouTube channels.
Clubs
Of the 20 clubs that played in the inaugural season of the League of Wales, ten have since been relegated yet to return, with one, Ebbw Vale, folding in 1998. For a list of all clubs past and present see List of Cymru Premier clubs. For a list of winners and runners-up of the Cymru Premier since its inception, and top scorers for each season, see List of Welsh football champions.
Only two clubs have played in every season League of Wales/Cymru Premier since its inception. These two clubs are Aberystwyth Town and Newtown.
Sponsors
Champions
For the champions of the top division of the Welsh League from 1904 to 1992, see Welsh Football League
Performances by club
Seven clubs have been champions. In bold those competing in the 2021–22 season.
Notes:
The New Saints were known as Llansantffraid until 1996 and Total Network Solutions between then and 2006.
Players
Marc Lloyd Williams scored 319 goals in 467 appearances, making him the most prolific goalscorer in the league's history.
Colin Reynolds holds the record for the number of appearances in the league with 516 games played.
Paul Harrison holds the record for the most consecutive appearances in the league with more than 190
See also
Football in Wales
Welsh football league system
Welsh Cup
Welsh League Cup
FAW Premier Cup
List of association football competitions
List of football clubs in Wales
List of stadiums in Wales by capacity
References
External links
Official site of the JD Cymru Premier
Former Official site of the JD Cymru Premier
Welsh Football Data Archive website
SOCCERWAY (Welsh Premier League summary)
Wales
Sports leagues established in 1992
1992 establishments in Wales
Professional sports leagues in the United Kingdom
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China White is a 1989 Hong Kong action crime film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Alex Man, Russell Wong and Ku Feng. Set in Amsterdam, the film deals with the rivalry between a Chinese and an Italian gang.
Plot
Chung Chi (Ku Feng) leads Roast Chicken (Andy Lau) and Tai Lan Choi (Alex Man) as the largest triad organization in the Chinatown of Amsterdam. Singer Yin Hung (Carina Lau), who is performing in Amsterdam, was abducted, but was fortunately rescued Chi and his underlings. However, at the same time, it led to an outbreak of bloody battles. After everything subsides, Chi and Hung got married, while Roast Chicken, who has a crush on Hung, feels dejected. The rival gang took the opportunity to attack and during a shootout, Roast Chicken and Tai Lan Choi were killed while covering Chi to escape, and their driver Chan Chiu was also crippled. However, Yin Hung was able to protect Tai Lai Choi's sons Bobby and Danny. Chi rescued Bobby (Russell Wong) and Danny (Steven Vincent Leigh) while also raising them. After more than a decade, Chi restores his power in Chinatown and united also rival gangs together and sets a peaceful and mutual beneficial treaty. Everyone elected Chi as the Godfather and is referred as Uncle Chi for keeping a peaceful atmosphere in Chinatown. However, the new, mafia boss Scalia (Billy Drago) has always wanted to intervene in Chinatown and secretly uses Turkish drug dealer as a spy and colludes with Chi's rival Chinese-Vietnamese citizen Fan Tai Tung (William Ho) to ambush and kill Chi. Bobby and Danny were able to escape brew another big bloody massacre.
Cast
Andy Lau as Roast Chicken
Alex Man as Tai Lan Choi
Carina Lau as Yin Hung
Russell Wong as Bobby Chow
Ku Feng as Chung Chi
Billy Drago as Scalia
Steven Vincent Leigh as Danny Chow
Lisa Schrage as Anne Micheals
Victor Hon as One Hand
William Ho as Fan Tai Tung
Tommy Wong as Mute
Rocky Lai as Min
Saskia van Rijswijk as Henchwoman
Ricky Ho as Kong
Shing Fui-On as Tuko
Fung Yuen Chi
Ronny Yu as Tong leader (cameo)
Poon Cheung
Chun Kwai Bo
Chan Tat Kwong
Mak Wai Cheung
Suen Kwok Ming as thug
John Chan as Ho
Nirut Sirijanya as General Ching
Raymond Fung as Uncle Chung
Lai Sing Kwong as thug
Box office
The film grossed HK$11,421,934 during its theatrical run from 4 to 28 November 1989 in Hong Kong.
Incident
During the late 1980s in Hong Kong, actress Carina Lau was abducted by triad members for refusing a film offer from a triad boss, which became a very publicized case. In 2008, film producer and former chairman of the Hong Kong Film Award Manfred Wong revealed on his blog that Lau was abducted and forced to fly to the Netherlands to act in China White, alongside co-stars Andy Lau and Alex Man, who were forced to do the same.
For many years, rumors circulated that Andy Lau, one of the top box office draws in Hong Kong, was once forced at gunpoint by triads to shoot a film. Wong also confirmed on his blog that China White was the film that Lau was forced at gunpoint to act in.
Many people believe that producer Jim Choi, who would benefit the most from it, was the mastermind of the case. Choi, who was the manager of Jet Li and Nina Li, was shot dead in 1992 at the age of 38. After Choi's death, there were many rumors surrounding around it including his connection to the Netherlands triads, keeping Li away from other film producers and karma for his actions in filming China White.
References
External links
Hong Kong films
1989 films
1980s action thriller films
1980s crime thriller films
Hong Kong action thriller films
Hong Kong crime thriller films
Triad films
Mafia films
Gun fu films
1980s Cantonese-language films
Films about organized crime in the Netherlands
Films directed by Ronny Yu
Films set in Amsterdam
Films set in Bangkok
Films set in Paris
Films shot in Amsterdam
Films shot in Bangkok
Films shot in Paris
Films shot in Singapore
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Bollywood Movie Award – Best Choreography
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The winners are listed below:-
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110705085218/http://www.bollywoodawards.com/
See also
Bollywood Movie Awards
Bollywood
Cinema of India
Bollywood Movie Awards
Indian choreography awards
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Wączos is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Chojnice, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Chojnice and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
The settlement has a population of 69.
References
Villages in Chojnice County
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John Helliwell
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John Anthony Helliwell (born 15 February 1945) is an English musician and the saxophonist and occasional keyboardist, woodwind player, and background vocalist for the rock band Supertramp. He also served as an MC during the band's concerts, talking and making jokes to the audience between songs.
Helliwell played with The Alan Bown Set, replacing Dave Green when he joined in January 1966, before joining Supertramp in 1973 along with bassist Dougie Thomson, who convinced Helliwell to make the move. In 2004, Helliwell formed the band Crème Anglaise with Mark Hart, who had joined Supertramp in 1985. This group recorded their eponymous debut album in 2005.
In 1987 Helliwell played on Pink Floyd's album A Momentary Lapse of Reason; his name was misspelled as "Halliwell". This was after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour had played on Supertramp's album Brother Where You Bound. Helliwell also played on French singer Jean-Jacques Goldman's 1985 album Positif, and clarinet on Sara Hickman's 1990 album Shortstop.
During a professional lull in the 1990s, Helliwell began studying for a music degree at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, but he discontinued his studies to join Supertramp on tour when Some Things Never Change was released. In 2004 he contributed saxophone work on the Simon Apple album River to the Sea.
Helliwell contributed clarinet to The Pineapple Thief's song "Fend For Yourself" from their Your Wilderness album which was released in 2016.
Helliwell fronts the Super Big Tramp Band, which has a jazz big band line-up of trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm section. It plays versions of Supertramp tunes, arranged by members of the band, with no vocals, but with Helliwell as the chief soloist. The band first played in Manchester in June 2013. In 2019 the band played at the Manchester Jazz Festival in May and was scheduled to play in Hull and Hamburg later in the year.
In October 2020, Helliwell released Ever Open Door, a CD album of ballads with Helliwell on saxophone and clarinet, with a string quartet and Hammond organ.
References
External links
Helliwell's personal website
John Helliwell biography
English keyboardists
English rock saxophonists
British male saxophonists
Melodica players
Supertramp members
1945 births
Living people
British expatriates in the United States
People from Todmorden
People from Topanga, California
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century British male musicians
The Alan Bown Set members
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Marta Kharitonova
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Marta Nikolayevna Kharitonova (, born 26 September 1984) is a Russian slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2002.
She won a bronze medal in the K1 team event at the 2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell. Kharitonova competed in the K1 event at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics placing 9th and 15th, respectively.
World Cup individual podiums
References
External links
Russian female canoeists
1984 births
Living people
Olympic canoeists of Russia
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg
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Frédéric Sanchez (born 23 September 1966) is a French sound artist and music producer, best known for his career in the fashion industry. His works include sound collages, mixes, original compositions, and sound installations. Major industry observers such as Vogue, Dazed, AnOther, or Business of Fashion have repeatedly referred to him as "one of the most respected sound designers working today".
In 2005 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French ministry of Culture.
Career overview
Fashion
Frédéric Sanchez's career began in 1988, when fashion designer Martin Margiela invited him to design the soundtrack for his debut show, and he since worked with various designers and brands such as Prada, Comme des Garçons, Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, Hermès, Jil Sander, Jean Paul Gaultier, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Martine Sitbon or Helmut Lang. He is a long-term collaborator to the Festival international de mode et de photographie in Hyères, France. Since its creation in 2013 he has been included in Business of Fashion's annual index of the 500 key people shaping the fashion industry.
Art and collaborations
Sanchez has designed and curated several installations and pieces, which have been displayed or performed in museums and institutions such as the Musée du quai Branly, the Musée du Louvre, the Mudam, the Grand Palais, the Foire internationale d'art contemporain (FIAC), and the parisian gallery Serge Le Borgne. He has collaborated with visual artists Louise Bourgeois, Jack Pierson, Bettina Rheims, Susanna Fritscher, and Orlan ; film directors Larry Clark and Ange Leccia, architects Herzog & de Meuron, and Odile Decq. In 2008, he curated the Gainsbourg 2008 exhibition at Paris’ Cité de la Musique. In 2010, he directed his first art film, Le Soldat Sans Visage.
Music and film
Frédéric Sanchez supervised the music on three feature films, 2000 Deauville American Film Festival's Prix Michel d'Ornano winner Le Secret directed by Virginie Wagon, 2001 Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear winner Intimacy directed by Patrice Chéreau, and 2008 Filmfest München's German Cinema Award for Peace winner Die Frau des Anarchisten directed by Peter Sehr and Marie Noëlle. In 2001, he released a music compilation featuring artists such as Mirwais, Fischerspooner, Chilly Gonzales, Peaches and Chicks On Speed.
Selected works
Installations
La Salamandre (2004) - Sound installation - Contrepoint exhibit - Musée du Louvre, Paris
Ondes visibles (2004) - Sound installation - Nave reopening - Grand Palais, Paris
Console (2004) - Sound performance - FIAC - Grand Palais, Paris
Castles In The Air (2007) - Sound installation - Galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris
Gainsbourg 2008 (2008) - Curator - Cité de la Musique, Paris
une utile illusion (2008) - Sound installation - Galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris
Artistic Collaborations
Epiderm (1999), Larry Clark - Soundtrack - Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
La Vie (2000), Jack Pierson - Sound creation - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Less aesthetics more ethics (2000), Odile Decq - Sound creation - Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice
Soundshowers (2000), Herzog & de Meuron - Sound creation - Prada Building, Tokyo
C'est Le Murmure De L'Eau Qui Chante (2003), Louise Bourgeois - Remix - Les Films du Siamois
La déraison du Louvre (2006), Ange Leccia, starring Laetitia Casta - Original soundtrack - Camera Lucida Productions
Il y'a ce que je sais (2011), Susanna Fritscher - Sound installation - l'Art dans les Chapelles Festival, Pontivy
Gender Studies (2011), Bettina Rheims - NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
une autre pièce : blanc (2012), Susanna Fritscher - Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Wienna
Art or Sound exhibition (2014), curated by Germano Celant - Musical arrangement - Fondazione Prada, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
References
French electronic musicians
Living people
Sound designers
1966 births
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
French people of Spanish descent
French artists
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BEA Systems, Inc. was a company that specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products which was wholly acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008.
History
BEA began as a software company, founded in 1995 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It grew to have 78 offices worldwide at the time of its acquisition by Oracle.
The company's name is an initialism of the first names of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott, and Alfred Chuang. All were former employees of Sun Microsystems, and launched the business in 1995 by acquiring Information Management and Independence Technologies. These firms were the largest resellers of Tuxedo, a distributed transaction management system sold by Novell. BEA soon acquired the Tuxedo product itself, and went on to acquire other middleware companies and products.
In 1998, BEA acquired the San Francisco start-up WebLogic, which had built the first standards-based Java application server. WebLogic's application server became the impetus for the Sun Microsystems' J2EE specification and formed the basis of BEA's WebLogic application server sold today.
They were a sponsor for Team Rahal (now Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) from 2002 to 2008, which included Buddy Rice's 2004 Indianapolis 500 win and Vitor Meira's 2005 Indianapolis 500 runner-up finish.
In 2005, BEA launched a new brand identity with the slogan "Think Liquid". This was considered cutting Edge marketing. BEA also announced a new product line called AquaLogic, which is an infrastructure software family for service-oriented architecture (SOA). The same year, it made its entrance into telecommunications infrastructure through the acquisition of Incomit, a Swedish telecommunications software provider. In late 2005, the company announced the acquisitions of Compoze Software, a provider of collaboration software, M7, an Eclipse-based tools company, and SolarMetric, editors of the Kodo persistence engine.
The acquisitions continued in 2006 with Plumtree Software, an enterprise portal company; Fuego, a business process management (BPM) software company; and Flashline, a metadata repository company. These acquisitions have since become parts of the AquaLogic SOA product stack.
On October 12, 2007, Oracle announced their intent to buy BEA Systems for $6.7 billion. As a result of the offer, BEA's stock price rose over five dollars upon the opening of trading for the day. BEA turned the offer down the same day, saying that the company is "worth substantially more". On January 16, 2008, Oracle signed a definite agreement to buy BEA for $8.5 billion. It is believed that Carl Icahn, one of the company's most prominent shareholders, was the main reason that the deal happened.
On April 29, 2008, Oracle completed its acquisition of BEA.
Products
BEA had three major product lines:
Tuxedo, now Oracle Tuxedo - transaction-oriented middleware platform
BEA WebLogic, now Oracle WebLogic Server - Java EE enterprise infrastructure platform
AquaLogic, now Oracle Service Bus - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform
BEA started out with the Tuxedo software product, but the products they are best known for in the computer industry are the WebLogic product family, which consists of WebLogic Server, WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Integration and JRockit. In 2005, BEA launched a new product family called AquaLogic for service-oriented architecture deployment. They have also entered the telecommunications field with their WebLogic Communications Platform, which includes WebLogic SIP Server and WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, technologies obtained through the acquisition of Swedish telecommunications software company Incomit. BEA also has a product offering for the RFID market called the BEA WebLogic RFID Product Family.
AquaLogic
BEA Systems produced the AquaLogic software suite for managing service-oriented architecture (SOA). It includes following products:
BEA AquaLogic BPM suite, a set of business process management (BPM) tools. It combines workflow and process technology with enterprise application integration functionality. The suite consists of tools aimed for line of business personnel for creating business process models (AquaLogic BPM Designer), as well as tools for IT personnel to create actual business process applications directly from said models (AquaLogic BPM Studio). The completed business process applications are deployed on a production server (AquaLogic BPM Enterprise Server), from which they integrate to backend applications and generate portal views for human interactions in the process. It also comes with a customizable tools for live business activity monitoring (BAM).
BEA AquaLogic User Interaction, a set of tools used to create portals, collaborative communities composite applications and other applications that use service architecture. These technologies work cross-platform. This technology came to BEA Systems from its acquisition of Plumtree Software.
BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository, a vital element of effective Service-oriented architecture life cycle governance, manages the metadata for any type of software asset, from business processes and web services to patterns, frameworks, applications, and components. It maps the relationships and interdependencies that connect these assets to improve impact analysis, promote and systematize code reuse, and measure the impact on the bottom line.
BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, an enterprise service bus (ESB) with operational service-management that allows the interaction between services, routing relationships, transformations, and policies.
BEA AquaLogic Service Registry, a UDDI v3 registry with an embedded governance framework. It provides a repository where services can be registered and reused for developing or modifying applications.
BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform (previously known as Liquid Data), providing tools for creating and managing different data services. It uses the XQuery language for data composition and transformation for a variety of data sources, including relational databases and web services.
BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, a security infrastructure application for distributed authentication, fine-grained entitlements and other security services. Features include allowing users to define access rules for applications without modifying the software itself, including JSP pages, EJBs and portlets.
BEA AquaLogic Commerce Services (often shortened as ALCS), an e-Commerce solution based on Elastic Path e-Commerce solution integrated with WebLogic application server. Discontinued on version 6.0 in year 2009 (after BEA acquisition by Oracle).
See also
List of acquisitions by Oracle
References
External links
BEA Systems - World Website
Companies based in San Jose, California
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
CRM software companies
Software companies established in 1995
Oracle acquisitions
2008 mergers and acquisitions
1997 initial public offerings
Software companies of the United States
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Bartramia ithyphylla is a species of moss belonging to the family Bartramiaceae.
References
ithyphylla
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Lycée Français de Vienne ("French Lycée of Vienna") is a French curriculum secondary school in Alsergrund, Vienna.
The Lycée Français de Vienne is one of the world's largest schools accredited by the Agency for French Teaching Abroad (AEFE) and has more than 2000 students.
The private school shares its boarding school with Theresianum.
Furthermore, the school is currently renowned for its excellence.
Academic Results
French Baccalauréat
The Lycée Français de Vienne has the following results:
Baccalauréat results 2015
Percentage of honours "Mention Très Bien": 30% of the students.
Percentage of honours "Mention Bien": 33% of the students.
Percentage of honours "Mention Assez Bien": 20% of the students.
Percentage of total honours : 83% of the students.
Notable alumni
Timna Brauer
Guillaume de Fondaumière
Mark Kidel
Arabella Kiesbauer
Christoph Matznetter
Julius Meinl
Ariel Muzicant
Marjane Satrapi
Zoë Straub
Toto Wolff
References
External links
Lycée Français de Vienne
International schools in Vienna
Vienna
Buildings and structures in Alsergrund
Educational institutions established in 1946
1946 establishments in Austria
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The 2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the 12th edition of the EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands from 22 to 30 August 2009.
England won the tournament for the first time after defeating Germany 5–3 in the final. The hosts and defending champions the Netherlands secured third place after defeating Spain 6–1 in the third-place playoff.
Qualified teams
Results
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pool B
Fifth to eighth place classification
The points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.
Pool C
First to fourth place classification
Semi-finals
Third and fourth place
Final
Final standings
Qualified for the 2010 World Cup
Relegated to the EuroHockey Championship II
See also
2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Trophy
2009 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship
References
Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship
Men 1
EuroHockey Nations Championship
International field hockey competitions hosted by the Netherlands
EuroHockey Nations Championship
Sports competitions in Amstelveen
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This is a list of fiction set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Books
Afterimage by Kathleen George
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
Another Kind of Monday by William Coles
The Autobiography of My Body by David Guy
Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau
Burning Valley by Philip Bonosky
Captains and Kings by Taylor Caldwell
Christine by Stephen King
Disquiet Heart by Randall Silvis
Duffy's Rocks by Edward Fenton
East Pittsburgh Downlow by Dave Newman
Fallen by Kathleen George
Greenhorn on the Frontier by Ann Finlayson
Ghosts of the Golden Triangle by Mord McGhee
The Homewood Books by John Edgar Wideman
Iron City by Lloyd L. Brown
The Last Chicken in America by Ellen Litman
The King's Orchard by Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1963) The Leap Year Boy by Marc Simon (2013) Lethal Legacy by Gerald MyersA Little Girl in Old PittsburgLooking For The General by Warren MillerThe Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes by K.C. ConstantineThe Memory Keeper's DaughterA Model World and Other Stories by Michael ChabonMonongahela Dusk by John HoerrThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael ChabonOut of This Furnace by Thomas BellThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyRemember the End by Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1938)
Riot by William Trautmann
Seducing Mr. Darcy by Gwyn Cready (2008)
Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
Taken by Kathleen George
The Tempering by Gloria Skurzynski
Three Golden Rivers by Olive Price
The Two Georges
U.S.A. by John dos Passos
Ukiah Oregon series
Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Ornamental Graces by Carolyn Astfalk
All in Good Time by Carolyn Astfalk
Comic books
Firestorm the Nuclear Man
The Pitt
Star Brand
Film
Plays
The Pittsburgh Cycle - In 2005, August Wilson completed a ten-play cycle, nine of which are set in Pittsburgh, chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century. These are:
1900s - Gem of the Ocean (2003)
1910s - Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984)
1920s - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1982) - set in Chicago
1930s - The Piano Lesson (1986) - Pulitzer Prize
1940s - Seven Guitars (1995)
1950s - Fences (1985) - Pulitzer Prize
1960s - Two Trains Running (1990)
1970s - Jitney (1982)
1980s - King Hedley II (2001)
1990s - Radio Golf (2005)
Television shows
Movies
Music
"America", written by Paul Simon and performed by Simon & Garfunkel, includes the line "Kathy", I said, / As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh, / Michigan seems like a dream to me now."
"Duquesne Whistle," which appears on the Bob Dylan album Tempest, was co-written by Dylan and Robert Hunter. The song describes a train ride through Pittsburgh. NPR's Ann Powers speculates that this may be the same train described in Dylan's "Lo and Behold".
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Bruce Springsteen describes "It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh / It's raining in Saigon / Snow's falling across the Michigan line."
"I'm Not Dead (I'm in Pittsburgh)", which appears on the Frank Black album Fast Man Raider Man, was co-written by Black and Pittsburgher Reid Paley. It draws upon Pittsburgh's historical connection with the zombie genre.
"I finally found a place to call my own / a place where all good sinners can get stoned / I'll keep my holy vision, you keep your stupid pride / You said I couldn't make it on my own / But I'm not dead (I'm in Pittsburgh) / And now I can't get out of town / But I'm not dead (I'm in Pittsburgh) / They've got me all strung, come cut me down."
"Life During Wartime," which appears on the Talking Heads' Fear of Music and Stop Making Sense, asks the listener in a post-apocalyptic landscape, "Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?" Long-time Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz grew up in Pittsburgh.
"Lo and Behold," which appears on The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and the Band, tells the story of the narrator recounting a train ride with "I come into Pittsburgh / At six-thirty flat / I found myself a vacant seat / An' I put down my hat."
"Sweet Little Sixteen", by Chuck Berry, rhymes "Pittsburgh, P.A." with "Frisco Bay."
"Six Days on the Road", written by Earl Green and Carl Montgomery, describes a trucker who says "Well, I pulled out of Pittsburgh", in describing life on the road.
Pittsburgher Wiz Khalifa often mentions the city in his music.
Pittsburgher Mac Miller often mentions his hometown in his music
Video games
Fallout 3
The Last of Us
References
Pittsburgh-related lists
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John "Barney" Hines (1878–1958) was a British-born Australian soldier of World War I, known for his prowess at taking items from German soldiers. Hines was the subject of a famous photo taken by Frank Hurley that depicted him surrounded by German military equipment and money he had looted during the Battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917. This image is among the best-known Australian photographs of the war.
Born in Liverpool, England, in 1878, Hines served in the British Army and Royal Navy, and worked in several occupations. He arrived in Australia in 1915 and volunteered for the Australian Imperial Force in August 1915. Although discharged due to poor health in early 1916, he rejoined in August that year and served on the Western Front from March 1917 to mid-1918, when he was discharged again for health reasons. During his period in France he proved to be an aggressive soldier, and gained fame for the collection of items that he amassed, but was undisciplined when not in combat and frequently punished. Following World War I, Hines lived in poverty on the outskirts of Sydney until his death in 1958.
Early life
Hines was born Johannes Heim on 11 October 1878 in Liverpool, England to German immigrant parents Jacob and Dora Heim. His father, Jacob Heim, was one of many Germans who emigrated to England to work in the sugar refining industry. He married Hannah Maher at Our Lady's Church in Eldon Street, Liverpool in 1899. They had two children together.
He was known as John Heim or Heims in Liverpool but by the time of his first criminal conviction in New Zealand in November 1904, he was using the alternate surname Hines. He had a very bad criminal record in New Zealand. After over a decade in New Zealand he moved to Australia. He worked his passage to Australia as a fireman on the ship Somerset under the name J Heim. The ship arrived at Sydney, Australia on 18 August 1915.
World War I
Hines first joined the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 24 August 1915, falsely claiming to be 28 years of age. In the year before he joined the Army he had worked as a seaman, engineer and shearer. He was discharged from the AIF as medically unfit on 20 January 1916. On 8 May Hines successfully rejoined the AIF, this time giving an age of 36 years and seven months. By this stage of the war medical requirements were less strict due to the need for reinforcements to make good the AIF's casualties. Hines was assigned to the 45th Battalion and departed Sydney for Europe onboard HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 22 August 1916.
After completing training in England, Hines joined the 45th Battalion on the Western Front in March 1917. In June that year he captured a force of 60 Germans during the Battle of Messines by throwing hand grenades into their pillbox, and was later wounded. He returned to his battalion in time for the Battle of Polygon Wood in September, where Frank Hurley photographed him on 27 September surrounded by the loot he had captured. Hines was an aggressive soldier and it has been claimed that he killed more Germans than any other member of the AIF. Though brave in battle and admired by his fellow soldiers, his behaviour was erratic at times. The wartime commander of the 45th Battalion, Arthur Samuel Allen, described Hines to a journalist in 1938 as "a tower of strength to the battalion ... while he was in the line".
Hines' enthusiasm for collecting German military equipment and German soldiers' personal possessions became well known within and possibly outside of his battalion, and earned him the nickname of "Souvenir King". Although he collected some items from battlefields at Ypres and the Somme region, most were stolen from German prisoners of war. He kept the items he collected for himself, and there are no records of any being handed over to the Australian War Records Section, the AIF unit responsible for collecting items for later display in Australia. Hines sold some of the items he collected to other soldiers, including for alcohol. The photograph of Hines at the Battle of Polygon Wood was published in late 1917 under the title Wild Eye, the souvenir king and became one of the best-known Australian photographs of the war. Many soldiers identified with Hines and were amused by his collection of souvenirs. The photograph was used as propaganda, and a false story developed that the German Kaiser Wilhelm II had become enraged after seeing it.
Away from the front line, Hines developed a record of indiscipline. He was court martialled on nine occasions for drunkenness, impeding military police, forging entries in his pay book and being absent without leave. He also claimed to have been caught robbing the strongroom of a bank in Amiens, though this is not recorded in his Army service record. As a result of these convictions, Hines lost several promotions he had earned for his acts of bravery. He was also fined on several occasions, and the resulting need for money may have been one of the factors that motivated his looting. A member of the 3rd Battalion described Hines as "not normally a weak man but rather one ... uncontrolled". An officer from the 45th Battalion stated after the war that Hines had been "two pains in the neck".
In mid-1918 Hines was discharged from the AIF as being medically unfit due to hemorrhoid problems. He arrived back in Australia on 19 October 1918. While his Army service file records that he was lightly wounded on two occasions, Hines later claimed to have been wounded five times.
Later years
Hines was traumatised by his experiences during World War I. For 40 years afterwards he lived in a humpy made of cloth bags near Mount Druitt on the outskirts of Sydney, and never married. The humpy was surrounded by a fence on which he hung helmets taken from German soldiers; he became well known to locals, though school children were afraid of him. Hines was unable to find consistent work, and lived on his Army pension as well as income from odd jobs and selling his souvenirs. He gained renewed fame when the photo of him at Polygon Wood was displayed at the temporary Australian War Museum in Sydney (the predecessor of the Australian War Memorial) from 1933, and several newspapers and magazines aimed at former servicemen published profiles of him. An article in the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia's magazine Reveille in 1934 highlighted Hines' desperate living conditions and stated that he had been unemployed for four years. Several former soldiers sent money to him in response to this article. Hines' pension was also doubled, though this income made him ineligible for relief work during the Great Depression. Despite his poverty, Hines travelled to Concord Repatriation Hospital each week to donate a suitcase of vegetables from his garden to the former soldiers being treated there.
Hines told a journalist in June 1939 that he was seeking to join the Militia and hoped to fight in another war. He attempted to enlist in the military during World War II, despite being in his 60s, but was rejected. An article published in The Nepean Times during 1943 claimed that Hines had attempted to stow away on a troop ship in 1940, but was found and sent ashore before the vessel sailed.
On 28 January 1958 Hines died at Concord Repatriation Hospital. He was buried in Rookwood Cemetery in a grave which was unmarked until 1971, when the Mount Druitt sub-branch of the Returned Services League of Australia paid for a headstone. The Blacktown City Council also renamed the street on which he lived in the suburb of Minchinbury to John Hines Avenue, and a monument commemorating him was built at the nearby Mount Druitt Waterholes Remembrance Garden in 2002.
A large version of the famous photograph of Hines was accorded a prominent position in the Australian War Memorial's permanent building in Canberra after it opened in 1941. The photo was also included in the 2014 redevelopment of the Memorial's permanent World War I exhibition. In a short biography of Hines published in 2002, historian Peter Stanley commented that "'Wild Eye's' bravado conceals a deeper pathos" and he "was a man whose skills in fighting were needed and whose knack for souveniring was admired, but he had few gifts that a peaceful society valued".
References
Published sources
Websites
Further reading
1878 births
1958 deaths
Australian military personnel of World War I
Australian sailors
British military personnel of the Second Boer War
English emigrants to Australia
English people of German descent
King's Regiment (Liverpool) soldiers
Military personnel from Liverpool
Royal Navy sailors
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Richard Knopper (born 29 August 1977) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Club career
Born in Rijswijk, Knopper began his career with Feyenoord but, still in his youth, moved to rivals AFC Ajax, making his official debut in November 1997 against Sparta Rotterdam. In 1999, he was voted by club supporters as Most Talented Player, receiving the Marco van Basten Trophy; the following year he scored 15 Eredivisie goals as a midfielder, but his team could only finish fifth.
A regular under Jan Wouters, Knopper saw his playing time reduce when Co Adriaanse took over as head coach in 2000. He was sidelined with injury for almost the entire season, playing only eight matches that year and appearing slightly more in the following, which would be his last.
In May 2002, Knopper had a trial with Premier League side Sunderland and played in that predicament in the testimonial match for Niall Quinn with the Republic of Ireland on the 14th. From 2002 to 2004 he served two loans, first with Greece's Aris Thessaloniki F.C. then with SC Heerenveen, slightly reviving his career with the latter; upon his Ajax release in summer 2004, he spent two additional campaigns with Vitesse Arnhem, appearing regularly.
After some problems with Vitesse manager Aad de Mos, Knopper was forced to leave and joined ADO Den Haag. In July 2007 a three-year contract was agreed, with the player netting again in double figures (ten) in 2008–09, crucial to help in a narrow escape from relegation; in the 2010 summer, aged 33, he was released.
In January 2011, Knopper moved to Liga Primer Indonesia club PSM Makassar, leaving after a couple of months and signing with lowly Haaglandia back in his country, where he ended his career.
Managerial career
ADO Den Haag and KNVB
In January 2012, Knopper was hired as an account manager at his former club ADO Den Haag. From the end of May 2013, Knopper was also coaching the club's U-18 squad. In February 2014, he left the position as account manager, but continued coaching the U-18 squad.
From the 2014-15 season, Knopper took charge of ADO's U-15 squad and in the 2015-16 season, of the U-17 squad. At the end of August 2015, Knopper was also hired as assistant coach for the Dutch U-16 national team.
Knopper left both the position at ADO and at the national team, in the summer 2016.
Ajax
In May 2016 it was confirmed, that Knopper would join Ajax ahead of the upcoming season, where he would alternate between coaching the U16 and U15 teams.. In April 2017, he signed a one-year contract extension with Ajax. Ahead of the 2018-19 season, he was promoted to U-17 manager. He left Ajax in the summer 2020.
Return to ADO Den Haag
On 13 May 2020 ADO Den Haag confirmed, that Knopper would return to the club from 1 July 2020 on a two-year deal as an first team assistant coach under head coach Aleksandar Ranković. After Ranković was fired on 8 November 2020, Knopper also left the club.
On 12 October 2021, Knopper returned to ADO, however, this time as a forward coach for the womens team, ADO Den Haag Vrouwen.
References
External links
Beijen profile
Stats at Voetbal International
1977 births
Living people
People from Rijswijk
Dutch footballers
Association football midfielders
Netherlands under-21 international footballers
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Super League Greece players
Indonesian Premier League players
AFC Ajax players
SC Heerenveen players
SBV Vitesse players
ADO Den Haag players
Haaglandia players
Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players
PSM Makassar players
Dutch expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Expatriate footballers in Indonesia
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia
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Kosmos 10 ( meaning Cosmos 10), also known as Zenit-2 No.5, was a Soviet reconnaissance satellite launched in 1962. It was the tenth satellite to be designated under the Kosmos system, and the fourth successful launch of a Soviet reconnaissance satellite, following Kosmos 4, Kosmos 7 and Kosmos 9.
Spacecraft
Kosmos 10 was a Zenit-2 satellite, a first generation, low resolution, reconnaissance satellite derived from the Vostok spacecraft used for crewed flights, the satellites were developed by OKB-1. In addition to reconnaissance, it was also used for research into radiation in support of the Vostok programme. It had a mass of .
Mission
The Vostok-2, s/n T15000-03, was used to launch Kosmos 10. The launch was conducted from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, and occurred at 09:21 GMT on 21 October 1962. Kosmos 10 was placed into a low Earth orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , an inclination of 65.0°, and an orbital period of 90.2 minutes. It conducted a four-day mission, before being deorbited and landing by parachute on 21 October 1962, and recovered by the Soviet forces in the steppe in Kazakhstan.
It was the last four-day test flight of the Zenit-2 programme, before the system became fully operational and began making eight-day full-duration flights from the next mission, Kosmos 12.
See also
1962 in spaceflight
References
Spacecraft launched in 1962
1962 in the Soviet Union
Kosmos satellites
Spacecraft which reentered in 1962
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Nosrat Saltaneh (10 November 1896 – 22 July 1932), also known as 'Aghaye Andaroun', was a Persian noblewoman. She was the daughter of Mir 'Ali Mardan Khan, Nuzrat ol-Molk and Princess Ashraf us-Sultana Qajar and sister of Amirteymour Kalali.
Notes
Sources
Agheli, Bagher, Teymourtash Dar Sahneye-h Siasate-h Iran ("Teimurtash in the Political Arena of Iran") (Javeed: Tehran, 1371).
Ansari, Ali, Modern Iran Since 1921: The Pahlavis and After (Longman: London, 2003) .
'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh - ايران در سه قرن گذشته), Volumes 1 and
Sheikholeslami, Javad, So-oud va Sog-out-e Teymourtash ("The Rise and Fall of Teymourtash") (Tous: Tehran, 1379) .
1896 births
1932 deaths
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Guangzhou International Women's Open
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The Guangzhou International Women's Open is a tennis tournament held in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. Held since 2004, the inaugural tournament had Li Na as the first ever Chinese singles title winner.
Past finals
Singles
Doubles
External links
WTA Tour profile
Tennis tournaments in China
Hard court tennis tournaments
WTA Tour
Sports competitions in Guangzhou
Recurring sporting events established in 2004
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Charles Lewis Gruneisen
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Charles Lewis Gruneisen (1806–1879) was an English journalist and musical critic.
Early life
He was born in Bloomsbury, London, 2 November 1806, son of Charles Gruneisen from Stuttgart, naturalised as British in 1796. He was educated by a private tutor and at Pentonville academy, with studies completed in the Netherlands.
Gruneisen started to write as a young man, and in 1832 was appointed sub-editor of The Guardian, the conservative Anglican weekly. He became editor of the British Traveller and Commercial and Law Gazette, a London evening paper, in 1833, and in the same year managed the foreign department of the Morning Post, and also a sub-editor.
Carlist War
In March 1837 Gruneisen was sent to Spain as special correspondent of the Morning Post to cover the First Carlist War. He was attached to the Carlist army at the headquarters of Don Carlos, Count of Molina. He was awarded the cross of the Order of Charles III.
Gruneisen was present at the Carlist victory at the Battle of Villar de los Navarros, 24 August 1837, intervening to prevent harm to prisoners. He remained with the army when it advanced to Madrid in September 1837, and in its dangerous retreat. After the Battle of Retuerta, 5 October 1837, he wanted to leave the country, but on 19 October was taken prisoner by Christino soldiers. He was considered a Carlist and a spy, released by the intervention of Lord Palmerston. He returned to England in January 1838.
Later life
From 1839 to 1844 Gruneisen was the Paris correspondent of the Morning Post, devising express communications with London, and a pigeon post; then editor of The Great Gun,a weekly illustrated paper, from 16 November 1844 to 28 June 1845. He was special correspondent of the Morning Herald during the tour of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort in Germany in 1845.
On his return to England Gruneisen acted as music critic to The Britannia, the Illustrated London News, and the Morning Chronicle, to 1853. It was in this area that he became known, drawing attention to Wagner, and knowledgeable on the music of Spain. He succeeded Charles Cowden Clarke in 1868 as music critic of The Athenæum, a position he held for the rest of his life.
Gruneisen died at his residence, 16 Surrey Street, Strand, London, 1 November 1879, and was buried in the western side of Highgate Cemetery on 7 November.
Interests
The Royal Italian Opera was established at Covent Garden in 1846, with Michael Costa as conductor; it was backed by Gruneisen, who had helped to plan it. In 1849 he dealt with Giacomo Meyerbeer over the Covent Garden production of Le prophète. In 1869 he publicly expressed dissatisfaction with the management of Frederick Gye; who broke with Gruneisen and entered into partnership with James Henry Mapleson.
Gruneisen was one of the main founders and a director of the Conservative Land Society 7 September 1852, and acted as secretary of it from 1853 to December 1872. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a member of the Society of Arts and of the Royal Literary Fund, and one of the trustees of the Newspaper Press Fund.
Works
Gruneisen was the author of The Opera and the Press (1869) and of Sketches of Spain and the Spaniards during the Carlist Civil War (1874). He also wrote a short Memoir of Meyerbeer, and contributed notes to Wilhelm Adolf Lampadius's Life of Mendelssohn, 1876.
Family
In 1839 Gruneisen married Emma Jane Moore.
In media
In the 2017 documentary film Gruneisen: El primer corresponsal de guerra, Gruneisen is played by Álvaro de Paz.
Notes
Attribution
External links
1806 births
1879 deaths
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
English journalists
English music critics
English war correspondents
People of the First Carlist War
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Afelee Valoa
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Afelee Valoa (born 5 July 1990) is a Tuvaluan international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tuvalu A-Division side Nauti.
Career
International
Valoa made his senior international debut on 2 December 2017 in an 8-0 defeat to Fiji at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games.
Career statistics
International
References
1990 births
Living people
Tuvaluan footballers
Tuvalu international footballers
Association football midfielders
Nauti F.C. players
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Nombu kanji
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Nonbu kanji (நோன்பு கஞ்சி) is kind of porridge made mainly of rice, lentils, spices and other items. Usually it is prepared during the holy month of Ramadan when Muslims fast for 30 days.
Nombu Kanji recipe was first developed by MR. Asan Mohideen belongs to the THANGAPLACHI family from kadayanallur, a Tamil hotel owner in Burma.
References
Indian cuisine
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Shyama Charan Gupta
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Shyama Charan Gupta (9 February 1945 – 9 April 2021) was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament representing Allahabad (Lok Sabha constituency) in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He was the founder of Shyama Group of companies, established in 1973.
Early life and education
Shyama Charan Gupta was born in Unchadih, District Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh) on February 9, 1945. He was educated in a nearby village Manikpur till High School, completed Intermediate from Allahabad. His academic qualifications include B.A, LL.B. from Kanpur and Lucknow subsequently.
Political career
Shyama Charan Gupta contested the parliamentary elections for the first time from Banda as an Independent candidate in 1984 and came third. His second parliamentary election was from Allahabad in 1991 on BJP ticket. He lost to Janata Dal's Saroj Dubey by 5,196 votes. In 1996, he campaigned for Murli Manohar Joshi only to challenge him in 1998 Lok Sabha elections as Samajwadi Party candidate. After losing the poll, he shifted to Banda (Lok Sabha constituency) in 1999 general elections. On 28 August 1989, he was elected as Mayor of Allahabad. He was elected the Mayor of Allahabad after a gap of 19 years, it was a prestigious election which he won as an independent candidate with the support of then Janta Dal. He emerged as a solid and a powerful Baniya Leader of Eastern UP during that time. In 2004, Shyama Charan was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Banda parliamentary constituency on the ticket of Samajwadi Party. He unsuccessfully fought from Phulpur in 2009 general election, losing to his Bahujan Samaj Party rival by a margin of less than 15,000 votes. In 2014 general election he won from Allahabad on a BJP ticket.
Gupta dropped hints of his dissatisfaction with Mulayam Singh Yadav’s party when one of his sons joined the Bhartiya Janata Party in January, 2014, reportedly at his insistence. He resigned from Samajwadi Party and joined BJP to contest the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Allahabad. He won the elections getting 313,772 votes, a margin of 62,009 votes over incumbent MP Rewati Raman Singh of the SP.
He was a member in the Committee on Finance, Committee for the Ministry of Mines & Steel, Committee on Subordinate Legislation.
Also previously during his tenure as Member of Parliament from Banda, between 2004 and 2009, he was on the Standing Committee of Finance and on the Consultative Committee of Food Processing.
Business career
He established Shyama Group of companies in 1973, which was involved in Bidi manufacturing and has stakes in hospitality and real estate sectors.
Personal life
Shyama Charan Gupta was married to Jamunotri Gupta.
He died from COVID-19 on 9 April 2021, aged 76.
References
External links
Official Biography at Parliament of India
Profile at Govt. of India website
1945 births
2021 deaths
People from Chitrakoot district
Politicians from Allahabad
People from Banda district, India
14th Lok Sabha members
Samajwadi Party politicians
Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh
16th Lok Sabha members
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
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Lillie Road
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Lillie Road is a street in the north of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. A mixed residential and commercial road, it is the westerly continuation of Old Brompton Road, running from Lillie Bridge to Fulham Palace Road (the A219). Its main junctions are with North End Road and with Munster Road at Fulham Cross.
History
The road is named after Sir John Scott Lillie, who first laid out the easternmost section of the road across his North End Hermitage estate in 1826 running from Gunter's footbridge over the tidal Counter's Creek to the T junction of the old Crown Lane with North End Lane. The intention was to link traffic from the new Hammersmith Bridge with the North End wharves of the planned Kensington Canal, thus obviating passage through Hammersmith and Kensington, or following the entire loop of the River Thames to Chelsea. Lillie's development also included late Georgian housing, terraces called, 'Rosa Villas' and 'Hermitage Cottages', on the north side of his 'New' road, some of which remain and recall Hermitage House that once stood here. He also built a brewery on the opposite side of the road in 1832. Only its 1835 public house, 'The Lillie Arms' remains, renamed the Lillie Langtry, due to the surmise that the Jersey actress had her assignations with the future Edward VII in one of the Georgian houses in Lillie Road. The Lillie Langtry is one of the oldest extant pubs in Fulham, while the 1883 Prince of Wales, opposite, rebuilt by Watney Combe & Reid in the Arts and Crafts style in 1938, is destined for imminent demolition, unlike the former Fuller's Seven Stars, West Kensington, around the North End Road corner, also from 1938, which has been preserved as flats.
Lillie Road is historically associated with the eponymous bridge over the West London Line, the Lillie Bridge Grounds, a popular 19th-century sports destination, with the Lillie Bridge Depot, the London Underground maintenance workshops, the Sir John Lillie Primary School and, at its western extremity, with the Lillie Road Recreational Grounds, where Sunday league football has been played for generations. Lillie Road was formerly the address of Beaufort School which commemorated Beaufort House and the South Middlesex Rifle Volunteers.
There are a number of statutorily and locally listed buildings in Lillie Road.
A little known resident of 62 Lillie Road was the specialised builder and decorator Joseph Bickley (1835-1923). He ran his business from Seagrave Road nearby and patented a plaster formula which became the mainstay of indoor tennis and Real tennis courts throughout Britain and in the United States (such as that at the Tuxedo Club). Its main virtue was to withstand condensation and damp. His courts, and courts he was consulted about, survive to this day, at Petworth House, Jesmond Dene House, Moreton Morrell, Queen's Club and at Hampton Court Palace. He faced bankruptcy proceedings in 1913 when he was in his late 70s. Described as the 'Stradivarius' of the indoor court, he took his secrets with him to the grave.
Commerce
Much of Lillie Road - with the exception of the blighted eastern end - retains some of Fulham's old character and individuality through the presence of small shops and businesses, that include upholstering and picture framing, a famous toy shop, along with a collection of antique shops by Fulham Cross.
Transport
West Brompton station with its District line and London Overground services are the eastern commencement of Lillie Road. London Buses route 74 and 430 traverse the entire length of the road with the 190 and sections being served by 295 and 211.
Places of interest
Lillie Bridge with vestige of 1826 Kensington Canal bridge and steps to canal basin and wharves.
John Young's Mid-Victorian Empress Place, former access to Earl's Court Pleasure Gardens
Lillie Yard recording studio
Empress State Building
Metropolitan Police Service Heritage Centre
Ibis London exhibition centre
Normand Park
Fulham Pools
Twynholm Baptist Church
Bishop Creighton Community Centre
References
External links
Cannons 1867 Brewery from Lillie Road:
The Lillie Road Association, representing the antique shops in Lillie Road:
Streets in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
History of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Transport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
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Leszczyn Szlachecki
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Leszczyn Szlachecki () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bielsk, within Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
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Leszczyn Szlachecki
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Chakda
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Chakda is a village and a Panchayat at Nissing tehsil in Karnal district in the Indian state of Haryana. Chakda is located about 10 km from town Nissing and about 27 km from Karnal district via both state highway 8 and state highway 9.
History
This village was once known by King Chakwa Ben. This village belonged to the Muslim population before the partition.
Religious places
Gurudwara sahib
Pir Baba Ji place
Nagar khera
Basanti mata mandir
School
Government primary school
saraswati public school
Places
33kv power house
Atal seva kendra
Anganwadi
government animal hospital
Panchayat ghar
old age home
Geography
Chakda is located at .This village is located about 10 km from Nissing , 27 km from karnal , 31 km from kaithal , 32 km from kurushetra , 25 km from pehowa and 26 km from Assandh
Physiography
The village lies in Nardak, Khadir and Bangar area. It has two ponds and one big river flowing from north to south .
Demographics
The populace speak the Punjabi language and are mostly Sikhs. They are predominantly agriculturists.
Administration
The village administration comes under Nissing sub-division of Karnal district. It is one among the 44 Pancahayat of Nissing at Chirao block of Karnal.
References
Villages in Karnal district
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Threlkeld is a civil parish in the Eden District, Cumbria, England. It contains 14 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish is in the Lake District National Park, and contains the village of Threlkeld, but mainly consists of countryside, moorland and fells. The listed buildings include houses, farmhouses and farm buildings, a church, a bridge, and a public house.
Buildings
References
Citations
Sources
Lists of listed buildings in Cumbria
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After Class (originally titled Safe Spaces) is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Schechter and starring Justin Long, Kate Berlant, Lynn Cohen, Michael Godere, Fran Drescher and Richard Schiff. It premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, and was released in theaters on December 6, 2019.
Cast
Justin Long as Josh Cohn
Kate Berlant as Jackie Cohn
Michael Godere as David Cohn
Lynn Cohen as Agatha
Fran Drescher as Diane Cohn
Richard Schiff as Jeff Cohn
Silvia Morigi as Caterina
Becky Ann Baker as Mary
Tyler Wladis as Ben Cohn
Samrat Chakrabarti as Terry
Nic Inglese as Alan
Emily Ferguson as Jennifer
Bryce Romero as Peter
Reception
After Class has received generally positive reviews from critics. , of the reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating .
References
External links
American films
American comedy-drama films
2019 comedy-drama films
2019 films
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Floody
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Floody is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Nilo Floody (1921–2013), Chilean modern pentathlete
Wally Floody (1918–1989), Royal Canadian Air Force officer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81gnes%20Szatm%C3%A1ri
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Ágnes Szatmári (born 28 June 1987) is a Romanian former professional tennis player.
On 24 March 2008, she reached her highest singles ranking of 187 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). On 20 August 2007, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 123.
She won two singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Szatmári was coached by Portik Endre.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 8 (2–6)
Doubles: 28 (14–14)
Year-end rankings
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
People from Gheorgheni
Romanian female tennis players
Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent
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Geertruidenberg () is a city and municipality in the province North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. The city, named after Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, received city rights in 1213 from the count of Holland. The fortified city prospered until the 15th century.
Today, the municipality of Geertruidenberg also includes the population centres Raamsdonk and Raamsdonksveer. The municipality has a total area of and had a population of in . The city government consists of the mayor Willemijn van Hees and three aldermen.
History
Geertruidenberg is named after Saint Gertrude of Nivelles.
In 1213, Sint Geertruidenberg (English: "Saint Gertrude's Mountain") received city rights from Count William I of Holland. The fortified city became a trade center, where counts and other nobility gathered for negotiations. The Hook and Cod wars in 1420 and the Saint Elizabeth's flood in 1421 ended the prosperity of the city.
During the Eighty Years War the city was captured by an English, French Huguenot and Fleming force in 1573 - in a surprise attack. In 1589 however the city was betrayed to Parma by its English garrison. It was finally recaptured by an Anglo-Dutch force under the command of Maurice of Nassau in the summer of 1593.
Today, Geertruidenberg is part of the province of North Brabant, but it was once part of the county of Holland. Geertruidenberg is the second oldest city of Holland as it was the first to receive city rights. It is a common misconception that Geertruidenberg is the oldest city of the Netherlands, because the names Holland and the Netherlands are used interchangeably by some.
Geography
The total area of the municipality is , of which is land and is water.
The municipality of Geertruidenberg comprises three population centres:
Geertruidenberg
Raamsdonk
Raamsdonksveer
Geertruidenberg is located on the bank of the Donge, close to where this river flows into the Amer.
Demography
As of , the total population of Geertruidenberg is inhabitants. The population density of the municipality is .
Government
The mayor of Geertruidenberg is Willemijn van Hees (VVD) and she was appointed mayor by the Dutch monarch, like all mayors in the Netherlands. The three aldermen of Geertruidenberg are Kevin van Oort (Groenlinks/D66), Adriaan de Jongh (CDA),and Bert van den Kieboom (Uw 3 Kernen). Together, the mayor and the aldermen form the College van Burgemeester en Wethouders, which is supported by the city's secretary Richard Nagtzaam.
The city council is elected every four years during municipal elections, at the same time as in most other municipalities of the Netherlands. The 19 members of the city council assemble ten times per year for public meetings in the city hall in Raamsdonksveer. The council members come from eight political parties, three local and five national (2014):
Notable people
Johannes Vollevens (1649 in Geertruidenberg – 1728) a Dutch Golden Age painter
Juliana de Lannoy (1738 – 1782 in St. Geertruidenberg) an artist and poet, lived in St. Geertruidenberg from 1758
Willem Sassen (1918 in Geertruidenberg – 2002) a Dutch collaborator, Nazi journalist, a member of the Waffen-SS and the interviewer of Adolf Eichmann in 1960
Jan Derksen (1919 in Geertruidenberg – 2011) a Dutch professional cyclist, world professional track sprint champion in 1946 and 1957
Matthijs Brouwer (born 1980 in Raamsdonk) a field hockey player, team silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Gallery
References
External links
Official website
Cities in the Netherlands
Municipalities of North Brabant
Populated places in North Brabant
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The dutchie is a Canadian doughnut popularized by the Tim Hortons chain. It is a square, yeast-lifted doughnut containing raisins that is coated with a sugary glaze. The dutchie was one of two original baked goods (along with the apple fritter) that had been available on Tim Hortons' doughnut menu since the chain's inception in 1964. In 1991, the Toronto Star reported that the dutchie and apple fritter were the chain's most popular type of fried dough, and that readers rejected the paper's contrarian taste-test results.
The dutchie was later removed from the chain's permanent menu, along with the peanut doughnut.
In Canada
In an informal 1988 poll of Toronto Star readers, Tim Hortons was awarded three gold medals, two for its dutchies and one to the banana cream doughnut. The company's double chocolate and honey glazed fared less well with the judges.
In 1995, the Toronto Star had a story reflecting on Tim Hortons "selling out" to Wendy's with "the spectacle of another great Canadian icon, one more priceless chocolate coconut cream-filled dutchie glazed cruller Timbit of our precious heritage, gone to Yankee burgerfat, (rounding) out the menus of the two chains by blending Tim Hortons morning meals and snacks with the strength enjoyed by Wendy's in lunches and dinners; burp; and nobody around to pass the Maalox?"
A 2009 story in The New York Times reported an apparent scarcity of doughnut specialties such as the dutchie at the newly opened New York City Tim Hortons stores. The report contrasted the baked from scratch at stores approach of Krispy Kreme and some Dunkin' Donuts locations compared to the "flash frozen" and shipped Tim Hortons method. Noting that "American visitors tend to flock to the sweets", including the "raisin-studded Dutchie", the Times found redemption among Canadians that the brand is once again a Canada-based company while contrasting the way politicians in the U.S. "woo" soccer moms while in Canada they "go after Tim Hortons voters".
The dutchie is no longer on the chain's permanent menu. It was temporarily re-introduced in June 2017 as one of several "Canadian-themed" products celebrating Canada's sesquicentennial.
Timbit
Tim Hortons has sold a smaller "donut hole" Dutchie under the Timbit brand. In February 2014, Tim Hortons announced that Dutchie Timbit had been discontinued due to low popularity.
See also
List of doughnut varieties
List of breakfast foods
References
External links
Products introduced in 1964
Canadian cuisine
Tim Hortons
Canadian doughnuts
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Albert Fraenkel (10 March 1848, Frankfurt/Oder – 6 July 1916, Berlin) was a German physician.
He received his education at the gymnasium (school) of his native town and at the University of Berlin, whence he graduated as doctor of medicine in 1870. After having been assistant to Adolph Kussmaul, Ludwig Traube and Ernst Viktor von Leyden in Berlin, he settled in the German capital, becoming a lecturer at the university in 1877. He was a nephew of Traube, the third volume of whose "Gesammelte Beiträge zur Pathologic und Physiologic" he published in 1878. Fraenkel received the title of professor in 1884, and became director of the medical department of the Am Urbanplatz Hospital, Berlin.
Literary works
Following in the footsteps of Traube, Fraenkel's first works were on experimental pathology, among them being the following:
"Ueber den Einfluss der Verminderten Sauerstoffzufuhr zu den Geweben auf den Eiweiszerfall ()", in Virchow's "Archiv," vol. lxvii;
with Ernst Viktor von Leyden, "Ueber die Grösse der Kohlensäureausscheidung im Fieber", ib. vol. lxxvi;
with J. Geppert, "Ueber die Wirkungen der Verdünnten Luft auf den Organismus", Berlin, 1873;
After becoming lecturer at the university his field of special research was the diseases of the lungs and the heart. Of his essays and works in this area may be mentioned:
"Bakteriologische Mittheilungen über die Actiologie der Pneumonie", in "Zeitsch. für Klinische Medizin", vols. x. and xi., in which essay he was the first to expound the theory of the micrococci of pneumonia;
"Pathologie und Therapie der Krankheiten des Respirationsapparates", 1890-1902;
"Ueber Septikopyümische Erkrankungen, Speciell Akute Dermatomyositis", 1894;
"Ueber Akute Leukämie", 1895;
"Zur Pathologischen Anatomie des Bronchialasthma", 1898.
His writings have appeared in the "Charité Annalen", "Zeitschrift für Klinische Medizin", "Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift", and "Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift".
References
Pagel, Biographisches Lexikon, s.v., Vienna, 1901;
By Isidore Singer and Frederick T. Haneman
19th-century German physicians
People from Frankfurt (Oder)
People from the Province of Brandenburg
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1916 deaths
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Abdulla Mohamed Hussein
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Abdulla Mohamed Hussein (born 7 December 1987) is an athlete who competed internationally for Somalia.
At the age of 16, Hussein became Somalia's youngest ever Olympic competitor when he entered the 400 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He finished his heat in 8th place so did not advance to the next round.
References
1987 births
Living people
Olympic athletes of Somalia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Somalian male sprinters
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Soccer tennis
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"Soccer tennis" may refer to:
Football tennis, a sport played on a field in which players hit a football (soccer ball) over a low net
Teqball, a sport resembling table tennis in which players hit a soccer ball (football) across a curved table
See also
Footvolley, a sport which combines aspects of beach volleyball and association football
Soccer (disambiguation)
Football (disambiguation)
Tennis (disambiguation)
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Hirsihorn
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The Hirsihorn (also known as Pointe de la Forcletta) is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located east of Ayer in the canton of Valais. It lies between the valleys of Anniviers and Turtmann, north of the Forcletta pass.
References
External links
Hirsihorn on Hikr
Mountains of the Alps
Alpine three-thousanders
Mountains of Switzerland
Mountains of Valais
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Harry Rintoul
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Harry Rintoul (December 9, 1956 - January 14, 2002) was a Canadian playwright and theatre director. He was best known for his 1990 play Brave Hearts, which was noted as one of the first significant gay-themed plays in Canadian theatre history to be written by a heterosexual writer, and one of the first ever to address gay themes in a rural setting outside of the traditional gay urban meccas of Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.
Born in Canmore, Alberta, Rintoul moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in childhood. As a young adult he moved to Regina, Saskatchewan for a time, during which he began writing Brave Hearts, but then moved back to Winnipeg and founded Theatre Projects Manitoba. The first production of Brave Hearts was staged by Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto, where it was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Outstanding New Play, Small Theatre Division in 1991. In 1992 Brave Hearts was included in Making Out, the first significant anthology of gay-themed Canadian plays, alongside works by David Demchuk, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Colin Thomas and Ken Garnhum; in 2006, it appeared in the anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays, alongside plays by Greg Kearney, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Ken Brand and Michael Achtman.
Rintoul's other plays included Life and Times, Refugees, Montana, Jack of Hearts, Between Then and Now, The Convergence of Luke and Lake Nowhere.
Following his death in 2002, the Manitoba Association of Playwrights established an annual Harry S. Rintoul Memorial Award, presented to the year's best play by a Manitoba writer at the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.
References
1956 births
2002 deaths
20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
Canadian theatre directors
Writers from Winnipeg
20th-century Canadian male writers
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Oksana Rogova
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Oksana Aleksandrovna Rogova (; born 7 October 1978 in Tambov) is a Russian triple jumper. She represented Russia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, finishing eighth in the women's triple jump competition.
She won the silver medal at the 1999 European Athletics Under 23 Championships and she was the 2003 Summer Universiade champion in the triple jump. Her other significant medal in her career is a gold at the 2006 European Athletics Indoor Cup. She took part in the 1999 World Championships in Athletics, finishing in ninth position.
Her personal best jump is 14.59 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Gothenburg. However, she achieved 14.70 m indoors at a meeting in Volgograd in 2002.
Achievements
References
External links
sports-reference
1978 births
Living people
Russian female triple jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Russia
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade gold medalists for Russia
Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade
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Lynching of Jake Brooks
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The Lynching of Jake Brooks occurred in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January 14, 1922.
Background
In 1922, the meatpackers Union in Oklahoma City was on strike. Militant strikers were angered by scab workers taking their jobs and plotted to make an example.
Lynching
The Militants went to great lengths and even recruited Jake Brooks' own cousin to take part in the lynching. They abducted him from his home on Saturday, January 14, 122, drove him 5 out of Oklahoma City and hung him from a tree. It took three days for his body to be discovered.
Aftermath
The local police were initially hesitant to investigate the killing but Govenor James B.A. Robertson directly intervened and five "ringleaders." They were Lee Whitley, 29; Charles Polk, 18l Elmert Yearta, 19; (the three white accused) and Robert Allen, 27; Nathan Butler, 40 (the two Black accused) were arrested, charged, plead guilty and were sentenced. Photographs of Jake Brooks's hanged body are sent to Congress, hoping for passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.
The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first introduced in 1918 by Representative Leonidas C. Dyer, a Republican from St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States House of Representatives as H.R. 11279. It was intended to establish lynching as a federal crime. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress and passed, 230 to 119, by the U.S. House of Representatives on January 26, 1922, but its passage was halted in the Senate by a filibuster by Southern Democrats, who formed a powerful block. Southern Democrats justified their opposition to the bill by arguing that lynchings were a response to rapes and proclaiming that lynchings were an issue that should be left for states to deal with.
Attempts to pass similar legislation took a halt until the Costigan-Wagner Bill of 1934. It was not until 2018 that the Senate passed the anti-lynching legislation Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, on which the House of Representatives took no action. On February 26, 2020, the House passed a revised version, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, by a vote of 410–4. The Bill currently has not been passed and no anti-lynching bill has been passed by both houses into federal law.
Bibliography
Notes
References
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1921 riots
1921 in Oklahoma
African-American history of Oklahoma
Lynching deaths in Oklahoma
December 1921 events
Protest-related deaths
Racially motivated violence against African Americans
Riots and civil disorder in Oklahoma
White American riots in the United States
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MARCA TV
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MARCA TV was a Spanish sports television channel owned by Unidad Editorial. The channel was a joint venture between Mediapro, responsible for producing the channel's content, and Veo Televisión, licensee of the multiplex.
MARCA TV had the broadcast rights of the Euroleague since the 2012–13 season, shared with Teledeporte. It ceased broadcasting as of July 31, 2013 due to changes in Spanish regulations regarding TV channel ownership.
History
The channel was launched on 28 August 2010 at 13:30. Its first broadcast was of the opening match of the 2010 FIBA World Championship. MARCA TV would broadcast those matches not televised by sister channel laSexta.
Broadcast rights 2012
National tournaments
La Liga, Copa del Rey, Segunda División
Primera División de Futsal
SpongeBob SquarePants
International events
International club competitions
CEV Champions League
Euro Hockey League
Mona & Sketch
Euroleague Basketball
World Championships
2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup
Franny's Feet
Tennis events
Madrid Open
Wooly
See also
MARCA
References
External links
Defunct television channels in Spain
Television stations in the Community of Madrid
Mass media in Madrid
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
Sports television in Spain
Spanish-language television stations
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Jean Joseph Delplancq
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Jean Joseph Delplancq (1767–1834) was a 19th-century bishop of Tournai and one of the founders of the Catholic University of Leuven.
Life
Delplancq was born in Thieu on 30 January 1767. He was educated at the college in Le Rœulx and at the Old University of Leuven. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1791, was appointed parish priest in Ville-en-Hesbaye in 1803, and in 1827 became dean of Hannut. The diocese of Tournai had been vacant since 1819, and in 1829 he was appointed to the see. He was consecrated as bishop of Tournai on 25 October 1829. After the Belgian Revolution of 1830 had guaranteed freedom of association and freedom of education, he established schools run by the De La Salle Brothers in Tournai, Peruwelz and Mons. He was among the founders of the Catholic University of Mechelen in 1834 (moved to Leuven in 1835), convincing his fellow bishops that it would be best to seek papal approval before pressing ahead with the foundation. He died in Tournai on 27 July 1834.
References
1767 births
1834 deaths
Old University of Leuven alumni
Bishops of Tournai
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Chlorella
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Chlorella is a genus of about thirteen species of single-celled green algae belonging to the division Chlorophyta. The cells are spherical in shape, about 2 to 10 μm in diameter, and are without flagella. Their chloroplasts contain the green photosynthetic pigments chlorophyll-a and -b. In ideal conditions cells of Chlorella multiply rapidly, requiring only carbon dioxide, water, sunlight, and a small amount of minerals to reproduce.
The name Chlorella is taken from the Greek χλώρος, chlōros/ khlōros, meaning green, and the Latin diminutive suffix ella, meaning small. German biochemist and cell physiologist Otto Heinrich Warburg, awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931 for his research on cell respiration, also studied photosynthesis in Chlorella. In 1961, Melvin Calvin of the University of California received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the pathways of carbon dioxide assimilation in plants using Chlorella.
Chlorella has been considered as a source of food and energy because its photosynthetic efficiency can reach 8%, which exceeds that of other highly efficient crops such as sugar cane.
As a food source
Chlorella is a food source because it is high in protein and other essential nutrients; when dried, it is about 45% protein, 20% fat, 20% carbohydrate, 5% fiber, and 10% minerals and vitamins. Mass-production methods are now being used to cultivate it in large man-made circular ponds. It is commonly used as a superfood and can be found as an ingredient in certain liquid-based cocktails.
When first harvested, Chlorella was suggested as an inexpensive protein supplement to the human diet. Advocates sometimes focus on other supposed health benefits of the algae, such as claims of weight control, cancer prevention, and immune system support. According to the American Cancer Society, "available scientific studies do not support its effectiveness for preventing or treating cancer or any other disease in humans".
Under certain growing conditions, Chlorella yields oils that are high in polyunsaturated fats—Chlorella minutissima has yielded eicosapentaenoic acid at 39.9% of total lipids.
Some companies producing Chlorella commercially as a human food include TerraVia (formerly Solazyme) and Allma.
History
Following global fears of an uncontrollable human population boom during the late 1940s and the early 1950s, Chlorella was seen as a new and promising primary food source and as a possible solution to the then-current world hunger crisis. Many people during this time thought hunger would be an overwhelming problem and saw Chlorella as a way to end this crisis by providing large amounts of high-quality food for a relatively low cost.
Many institutions began to research the algae, including the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, the NIH, UC Berkeley, the Atomic Energy Commission, and Stanford University. Following World War II, many Europeans were starving, and many Malthusians attributed this not only to the war, but also to the inability of the world to produce enough food to support the increasing population. According to a 1946 FAO report, the world would need to produce 25 to 35% more food in 1960 than in 1939 to keep up with the increasing population, while health improvements would require a 90 to 100% increase. Because meat was costly and energy-intensive to produce, protein shortages were also an issue. Increasing cultivated area alone would go only so far in providing adequate nutrition to the population. The USDA calculated that, to feed the U.S. population by 1975, it would have to add 200 million acres (800,000 km2) of land, but only 45 million were available. One way to combat national food shortages was to increase the land available for farmers, yet the American frontier and farm land had long since been extinguished in trade for expansion and urban life. Hopes rested solely on new agricultural techniques and technologies. Because of these circumstances, an alternative solution was needed.
To cope with the upcoming postwar population boom in the United States and elsewhere, researchers decided to tap into the unexploited sea resources. Initial testing by the Stanford Research Institute showed Chlorella (when growing in warm, sunny, shallow conditions) could convert 20% of solar energy into a plant that, when dried, contains 50% protein. In addition, Chlorella contains fat and vitamins. The plant's photosynthetic efficiency allows it to yield more protein per unit area than any plant—one scientist predicted 10,000 tons of protein a year could be produced with just 20 workers staffing a 1000-acre (4-km2) Chlorella farm. The pilot research performed at Stanford and elsewhere led to immense press from journalists and newspapers, yet did not lead to large-scale algae production. Chlorella seemed like a viable option because of the technological advances in agriculture at the time and the widespread acclaim it got from experts and scientists who studied it. Algae researchers had even hoped to add a neutralized Chlorella powder to conventional food products, as a way to fortify them with vitamins and minerals.
When the preliminary laboratory results were published, the scientific community at first backed the possibilities of Chlorella. Science News Letter praised the optimistic results in an article entitled "Algae to Feed the Starving". John Burlew, the editor of the Carnegie Institution of Washington book Algal Culture-from Laboratory to Pilot Plant, stated, "the algae culture may fill a very real need," which Science News Letter turned into "future populations of the world will be kept from starving by the production of improved or educated algae related to the green scum on ponds." The cover of the magazine also featured Arthur D. Little's Cambridge laboratory, which was a supposed future food factory. A few years later, the magazine published an article entitled "Tomorrow's Dinner", which stated, "There is no doubt in the mind of scientists that the farms of the future will actually be factories." Science Digest also reported, "common pond scum would soon become the world's most important agricultural crop." However, in the decades since those claims were made, algae have not been cultivated on that large of a scale.
Current status
Since the growing world food problem of the 1940s was solved by better crop efficiency and other advances in traditional agriculture, Chlorella has not seen the kind of public and scientific interest that it had in the 1940s. Chlorella has only a niche market for companies promoting it as a dietary supplement.
Production difficulties
The experimental research was carried out in laboratories, rather than in the field, and
scientists discovered that Chlorella would be much more difficult to produce than previously thought. To be practical, the algae grown would have to be placed either in artificial light or in shade to produce at its maximum photosynthetic efficiency. Also, for the Chlorella to be as productive as the world would require, it would have to be grown in carbonated water, which would have added millions to the production cost. A sophisticated process, and additional cost, was required to harvest the crop, and, for Chlorella to be a viable food source, its cell walls would have to be pulverized. The plant could reach its nutritional potential only in highly modified artificial situations. Another problem was developing sufficiently palatable food products from Chlorella.
Although the production of Chlorella looked promising and involved creative technology, it has not to date been cultivated on the scale some had predicted. It has not been sold on the scale of Spirulina, soybean products, or whole grains. Costs have remained high, and Chlorella has for the most part been sold as a health food, for cosmetics, or as animal feed. After a decade of experimentation, studies showed that following exposure to sunlight, Chlorella captured just 2.5% of the solar energy, not much better than conventional crops. Chlorella, too, was found by scientists in the 1960s to be impossible for humans and other animals to digest in its natural state due to the tough cell walls encapsulating the nutrients, which presented further problems for its use in American food production.
Use in carbon dioxide reduction and oxygen production
In 1965, the Russian CELSS experiment BIOS-3 determined that 8 m2 of exposed Chlorella could remove carbon dioxide and replace oxygen within the sealed environment for a single human. The algae were grown in vats underneath artificial light.
Dietary supplement
Chlorella is consumed as a dietary supplement. Manufacturers of Chlorella products falsely assert that it has purported health effects, including an ability to treat cancer, for which the American Cancer Society stated "available scientific studies do not support its effectiveness for preventing or treating cancer or any other disease in humans". The United States Food and Drug Administration has issued warning letters to supplement companies for falsely advertising health benefits of consuming chlorella products, such as one company in October 2020.
Health concerns
A 2002 study showed that Chlorella cell walls contain lipopolysaccharides, endotoxins found in Gram-negative bacteria that affect the immune system and may cause inflammation. However, more recent studies have found that the lipopolysaccharides in organisms other than Gram-negative bacteria, for example in cyanobacteria, are considerably different from the lipopolysaccharides in Gram-negative bacteria.
Aquaria
Chlorella can be a nuisance organism in freshwater aquaria.
See also
Calvin cycle
List of ineffective cancer treatments
Quorn (food product): made from mycoprotein
Soyuz 28, a 1978 space mission which included experiments on Chlorella
Spirulina (dietary supplement)
Chlorellosis, a disease caused by the infection of Chlorella''.
References
Trebouxiophyceae genera
Trebouxiophyceae
Edible algae
Dietary supplements
Aquaculture
Alternative cancer treatments
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Wandou Guehi
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Wandou Guehi (born 15 December 1967) is an Ivorian handball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
References
1967 births
Living people
Ivorian female handball players
Olympic handball players of Ivory Coast
Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
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Febles
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Febles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Carlos Febles (born 1976), Dominican professional baseball coach and former professional baseball player
Daniel Febles (born 1991), Venezuelan footballer
Magali Febles (born 1964), Dominican beautician and pageant director
Pedro Febles (1958–2011), Venezuelan footballer and manager
Spanish-language surnames
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"Making Love" is a 1982 song written by Burt Bacharach, Bruce Roberts, and Carole Bayer Sager to serve as the theme song for the film of the same name in which, as recorded by Roberta Flack with Bacharach/ Bayer Sager producing, it played under the closing credits: a Top 20 hit single for Flack (who arranged the track), "Making Love" was included on the singer's 1982 album release I'm the One.
Background
Carole Bayer Sager was a frequent lyricist for either Burt Bacharach - whom she married in April 1982 - or Bruce Roberts but all three songwriters only collaborated on occasion: "Making Love" is the second and most successful of three charting collaborations for the Bacharach/ Roberts/ Bayer Sager songwriting team, subsequent to "Stronger Than Before" - #30 as recorded by Carole Bayer Sager in 1981 - and preceding the 1986 El DeBarge hit "Love Always" (#43).
In the late 1960s Burt Bacharach had regularly visited the Capitol Hill club Mr Henry's to hear a pre-stardom Roberta Flack sing, but "Making Love" marked the first time Flack had recorded a Bacharach composition: Flack's 1983 duet album with Peabo Bryson: Born to Love, would feature two Bacharach/ Bayer Sager songwriting/ producing collaborations: "Blame It On Me" and "Maybe". Flack would recall having had no preview of the song "Making Love" prior to recording it: (Roberta Flack quote:)"I just went into the studio, sight-read it, and I love the way it came out."
The song's lyrics "There's more to love...than making love" were prominently displayed on the poster and also newspaper/magazine promo ads for the parent film Making Love, described as the first mainstream gay-themed Hollywood production: commenting on singing the theme for a potentially controversial film Flack would state she "[could never be] afraid of singing a song about love...Love is universal, like music," adding: "I was so glad when that song charted." In fact the heavily hyped film proved to be a box office disappointment, largely leaving Flack's single to fare on its own merit: with no overt same-sex references in its lyrics Flack would allow that some fans of the song "did not know that the song was about love between two men" adding: "I would talk about it in my shows...about how love is love [whether] between a man and a woman, between two men, between two women." Apparently Flack was unaware that the lyrics are about the love between the male and female protagonists of the film, celebrating, after their breakup due to the man's coming to terms with his homosexuality, their ability to still love each other (But now neither one of us is breaking/ There's more to love, I know/ Than making love).
Impact
Overview
"Making Love" would return Flack - as a soloist - to the Top 20 of the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the first time since 1974: she had in 1978 reached #2 with the Donny Hathaway duet "The Closer I Get to You" and that same year reached #24 with the movie theme song "If Ever I See You Again" (not sung by Flack in its parent film). Another of Flack's more moderate single successes of the 1970s: her version of the Janis Ian composition "Jesse" which had reached #30 in 1973, served as the B-side of the "Making Love" single. Eventually ranked at #46 on the Billboard Hot 100 tally for the year 1982, "Making Love" was also a hit on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary chart (#7) and also on the magazine's R&B chart (#29).
Flack's followup single: "I'm the One", stalled at #42 on the Hot 100, leaving "Making Love" her sixth and final Top 40 hit although she would subsequently reach the Top 20 with two duets: "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" with Peabo Bryson (#16/ 1983) and "Set the Night to Music" with Maxi Priest (#6/ 1991) which, with her three Donny Hathaway duet hits from the 1970s, would make Flack's overall Top 40 tally eleven hits.
"Making Love" was not one of Flack's major international successes, charting low in both Australia (#63) and Canada (#43) (the track did reach #22 on the Adult Contemporary chart for Canada).
Chart history
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Critical reception
Roberta Flack's recording of "Making Love" drew polarized critical opinion. WaPo music critic Geoffrey Himes considered that track's parent album: I'm the One, evinced "the mistaken notion that the slower and dreamier the song, the more profound it is", citing "Making Love" itself as the "worst example": "Flack whispers the maudlin lyrics [of "Making Love"] 'meaningfully' and the syrupy melody drags interminably." However, Chuck Graham of the Tucson Citizen characterized the I'm the One album as "sweetly tempered [with] moods...done in pastels [i.e. subtly]", deeming the track "Making Love" "an expression of adult confidence that overcomes the hurt of infidelity [whose] lyric is several steps above the usual level of pop songs." "Snicks" of the Logo TV site NewNowNext.com ranked Flack's "Making Love" at #12 on his 50 Movie Songs Of The 80s ranking, citing it as a "gorgeous ballad [that is] one of Roberta’s finest moments."
Other versions...
...of "Making Love" have been recorded by:
The Chi-Lites on their 1983 album Bottom's Up: the track served as B-side for the R&B chart single "Bad Motor Scooter" (#28).
Anita Meyer on her 1989 album Close to You - the most beautiful songs of Burt Bacharach.
Jaya on her 2011 covers album of mostly smooth soul hits All Souled Out.
References
External links
Roberta Flack songs
1982 singles
Songs with music by Burt Bacharach
Songs written by Bruce Roberts (singer)
Songs written by Carole Bayer Sager
Film theme songs
Songs about sexuality
1982 songs
Atlantic Records singles
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Huañuma (possibly from Aymara waña dry, uma water, "dry water") is a mountain in the Andes of southern Peru, about high. It is located in the Moquegua Region, Mariscal Nieto Province, Torata District, and in the Tacna Region, Candarave Province, Camilaca District. Huañuma lies south of Limani, Apacheta Limani and Tutupaca, west of the Tutupaca volcano, north of Chuquiananta and northeast of Pomani.
Huañuma is also the name of an intermittent stream which originates near the mountain. Its waters flow to Asana River.
References
Mountains of Moquegua Region
Mountains of Tacna Region
Mountains of Peru
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John O'Gaunt's Castle
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John O'Gaunt's Castle was a royal hunting lodge in the West Riding of Yorkshire in England.
History
John of Gaunt's Castle is situated near Harrogate, now in North Yorkshire. The castle was considered to be the hunting lodge of John O'Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, who was Lord of the Manor of Knaresborough for twenty-eight years until 1399.
Strongly sited on the end of a spur at Haverah Park, is a ditched platform 35mx30m which had a curtain wall and a gatehouse, with a bridge over the moat. Within are buried footings of a central tower, 15m square, and 1 wall which probably formed part of a range. It was situated within the royal lordship of Knaresborough. Edward III had building works in progress here in 1334. In 1372 he granted it, along with Knaresborough to his son John of Gaunt, from whom it gained its name.
The castle was listed for the first time on December 17, 1929.
Description
The hunting lodge was a stone tower built atop on a square foundation. The lodge also had a chapel. The roof was made out of lead. A wide ditch surrounded the castle.
References
See also
Beaver Dyke Reservoirs
Castles in Great Britain and Ireland
List of castles in England
Castles in North Yorkshire
Borough of Harrogate
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EOE may refer to:
East of Eden (novel), a 1952 novel by John Ernst Steinbeck
Echoes of Eternity, an American metal band
Encyclopedia of Earth, an electronic reference work
EOE: Eve of Extinction, a video game
The End of Evangelion, an anime film
Errors and omissions excepted
Eosinophilic esophagitis, an allergic inflammatory condition
European Option Exchange, now part of Euronext Amsterdam
Newberry County Airport, in South Carolina, United States
Equal opportunity employer
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Kurt Andersen (general)
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Kurt Andersen (2 October 1898 – 9 January 2003) was a general in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II and in the Bundesgrenzschutz of West Germany. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Awards and decorations
Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (22 September 1939) & 1st Class (3 May 1940)
Ground Assault Badge of the Luftwaffe (24 December 1942)
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 23 December 1942 as Oberst and commander of Flak-Regiment 153
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) 1961
References
Citations
Bibliography
1898 births
2003 deaths
People from Salzgitter
People from the Province of Hanover
German police chiefs
German military personnel of World War I
Luftwaffe World War II generals
Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st class
Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United Kingdom
20th-century Freikorps personnel
German centenarians
Men centenarians
Major generals of the Luftwaffe
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Governor Hough
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Governor Hough may refer to:
Ralph D. Hough (born 1943), Acting Governor of New Hampshire in 1993
Henry Hughes Hough (1871–1943), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1922 to 1923
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Bridgehead Coffee
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Bridgehead is a fair trade coffeehouse, coffee retailer, and coffee roaster chain based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In addition to coffee and organic teas, it sells soups, salads, sandwiches and snacks made in its own kitchen. In November 2006, Bridgehead was voted Ottawa's "Best Coffee/Tea House" by readers of lifestyle weekly Ottawa XPress. Bridgehead also sells coffee, coffee gear (mugs, cups), tea, hot chocolate, baked goods and coffee making equipment (Chemex, Aeropress) and more, through their website.
History
Bridgehead was formed in Toronto, Ontario, originally as Bridgehead Trading, in 1981, by two United Church ministers and two social activists
who were concerned with small-scale coffee farmers in Nicaragua.
Bridgehead was the first company to offer Canadian consumers fairly traded coffee, as a group of volunteers sold coffee from the basements of churches in Toronto. The business grew rapidly and was soon acquired by Oxfam Canada in 1984.
Under Oxfam Canada, Bridgehead became a formally incorporated, for-profit company. Oxfam Canada's aim was not to focus on the coffee that Bridgehead was funded and grew from, but to bring in a more diverse fair-trade product line. This eventually led to a decrease in profits and eventually a dip into losses. A profile of Bridgehead's post-Oxfam management in the Ottawa Citizen claimed that Oxfam Canada's Bridgehead ultimately failed in the mid-1990s due in part to a "lack of sound business practices."
In May 1998, Bridgehead was acquired by Shared Interest. This U.K. based lending society held the Bridgehead name in hopes of finding a buyer. Shared Interest only needed to hold the name for a year as in 1999; an offer arrived from Tracey Clark.
Clark wanted to restore Bridgehead to its former status as a fair-trade coffee and tea company. In April 2000, Bridgehead Inc. was formed, and on June 17, 2000, the first Bridgehead Coffeehouse opened at 362 Richmond Road in Westboro, Ottawa, Ontario. Clark originally relied on financing from family and friends, but by 2002, Bridgehead was owned by 30 investors. Also in 2002, Clark opened a central kitchen to serve Bridgehead's line of food products. Bridgehead expanded from one outlet in 2000 to nine by 2008, and currently operates twenty outlets, requiring the company to provide calorie counts for all of its food products.
June 2012 marked the opening of Bridgehead's own roastery, which is now where all of the coffee that is sold by the company is roasted. A further development is the introduction of alcohol to Bridgehead's beverage lineup. In July 2015, According to the reports, Bridgehead Coffee opened a 1,850-square-foot location in a six-storey office at the corner of Pinecrest road and Iris Street. As of September 2015, select Bridgehead locations began to offer beer from local breweries Beau's and Beyond the Pale, as well as wine and coffee-inspired cocktails. In 2017, Bridgehead began working with Carleton University's Mass Spectrometry Centre to uncover answers about how coffee beans age on a cellular level.
In December 2019, the company announced it was being sold to Aegis Brands, parent company of the Second Cup coffee chain.
Locations
Bridgehead Coffee has 20 locations in the Ottawa region.
Headquarters + roastery
130 ANDERSON ST. (AT PRESTON ST.)
Centretown
366 BANK ST. (AT GILMOUR ST.)
150 SLATER ST. (AT O'CONNOR ST.)
282 ELGIN ST. (AT MACLAREN ST.)
96 SPARKS ST. (AT METCALFE ST.)
Glebe & Ottawa South
750 BANK ST. (AT SECOND AVE.)
1172 BANK ST. (AT GROVE AVE.)
830 BELFAST RD. (AT TRAIN YARDS)
1125 COLONEL BY DR. (AT CARLETON)
Wellington & Ottawa West
1024 WELLINGTON ST. (AT FAIRMONT AVE.)
1277 WELLINGTON ST. (AT CAROLINE AVE.)
440 RICHMOND RD. (AT GOLDEN AVE.)
317 MCRAE AVE. (AT SCOTT ST.)
2140 CARLING AVE. (AT FAIRLAWN PLAZA)
2745 IRIS ST. (AT GREENBANK)
Byward Market & Ottawa East
50 RIDEAU ST. (AT RIDEAU CENTRE)
224 DALHOUSIE ST. (AT GUIGUES AVE.)
131 BEECHWOOD AVE. (IN NEW EDINBURGH)
Temporary closures
344 SLATER ST.(AT KENT & LYON)
150 SLATER ST. (AT O'CONNOR ST)
See also
List of coffeehouse chains
References
External links
Bridgehead's history
Coffee brands
Coffee houses of Canada
Companies based in Ottawa
Fair trade brands
Oxfam
Canadian companies established in 1981
1981 establishments in Ontario
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1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak
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The 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak was the third notable US tornado outbreak to occur on Palm Sunday and the second to take place in the Southeastern United States. The outbreak produced 29 tornadoes from Texas to North Carolina, killing 40 people and injuring 491, and causing $140 million in damage. The deadliest storm of the outbreak, as well as in the US in 1994, was an F4 tornado that devastated Piedmont, Alabama. It struck the Goshen United Methodist Church right in the middle of the Palm Sunday service, collapsing the roof on the congregation and killing 20 people inside, including the Rev. Kelly Clem's 4-year-old daughter Hannah. Two other houses of worship were also destroyed mid-service. The supercell that formed this tornado tracked for to South Carolina.
Synoptic Setup and Timeline
The SPC started forecasting the outbreak on March 26, highlighting the risk of severe thunderstorms over the area that would eventually be impacted. They issued a "severe" forecast for most of the Southern, and some of the Mid-Atlantic states, forecasting "the potential for supercell storms, along with the possibility of tornadoes."
By the morning of March 27, it was apparent that a very strong and potent airmass had set up over the Gulf states, with the SPC issuing a moderate risk for most of Alabama, the southern half of Mississippi, and most of Louisiana in their morning outlook. The 6 AM CST (1200 UTC) 500 MB analysis showed a strong southwest flow of near 80 knots over the Southern U.S., while at the 850 MB level, there existed winds of near 50 knots coming out of the state of Louisiana. At the surface, temperatures in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia were in the low 70's Fahrenheit, with dewpoints were in the upper 60's to low 70's. CAPE values at Centreville, Alabama were nearing 1,200 j/kg with no cap to speak of. A surface front left by rain during the previous evening was situated over northern parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.
By 9 AM CST (1500 UTC), thunderstorms and severe weather were not only occurring along the boundary setup by the rain from the previous evening in the northern portions of Alabama and Mississippi, but further to the south as well. At 9:18 AM CST (1518 UTC), the SPC issued a Tornado Watch for Eastern Mississippi and Northern Alabama. The storms then rapidly intensified, with tornado warnings being issued by the Birmingham and Huntsville NWS offices before 11 AM local time. Both the deadly F4 tornado that struck the Goshen United Methodist Church in Cherokee County and the Marshall County F2 twister formed at about this time. The SPC also issued a PDS Tornado Watch for all of Northern Georgia by 12 PM EST (1700 UTC), with the wording stating, "This is a particularly dangerous situation with the possibility of very damaging tornadoes. Also, large hail, dangerous lightning and damaging thunderstorm winds can be expected." Severe storms and tornadoes tracked into the northern Georgia region by 12:42 EST, and tornadoes continued to track across northern Georgia during the afternoon.
During the early-mid afternoon, analysis showed a very unstable airmass over the southern U.S., with CAPE values near 2,500 j/kg and SRH values of near 250 m2/s2 at Jackson, Mississippi. The 1800 UTC Centreville, Alabama sounding showed similar conditions, with CAPE over 2,500 j/kg and SRH values of over 500 m2/s2. This resulted in an EHI value of 8.49, which is strongly supportive of tornadic thunderstorms. Based on these soundings, the SPC issued a High Risk for their 1930 UTC outlook, noting a rapidly destabilized atmosphere and winds being much stronger than what was originally forecasted. Noting the presence of a shortwave trough that was tracking into Mississippi and Louisiana as well as rapidly falling pressures in advance of a frontal boundary, the SPC issued a tornado watch for eastern Louisiana and central Mississippi, however, there were no reported tornadoes in this region on March 27. The SPC, seeing that storms were tracking into the Carolinas, issued a tornado watch for portions of the western and central Carolinas, as well as the portion of northeast Georgia not already included in the prior tornado watch. Tornadoes continued to track along this area from the mid-late afternoon, with an F3 tornado striking parts of northeast Georgia and the upstate of South Carolina, injuring 12, and another tornado along the border region of North Carolina and South Carolina injuring 13.
In Alabama, tornadoes continued in the central part of the state during the mid-late afternoon. An F1 tornado struck parts of Tuscaloosa County just after 4 PM. Funnel clouds were seen in Hueytown as a storm went over Jefferson County at around 4:30 PM local time. An F2 tornado was produced in Shelby County at 5:30 CST, damaging a high school and a residential neighborhood before destroying two mobile home parks.
During the cleanup from the F4 tornado that struck Cherokee County, emergency responders had to take cover as another funnel cloud was spotted just before 6 PM CST. The storms also produced hail up to in diameter and winds around . The storm system also left behind extensive flooding in Winston and Walker Counties, with $150,000 worth of damage done to roads and bridges in Walker County. The final tornado of the outbreak was reported just before midnight in Greenville County in South Carolina. The National Weather Service offices in Birmingham, Atlanta, and Athens did not stop issuing warnings until late at night on the 27th or early in the morning on the 28th, issuing 75 tornado warnings and 182 severe weather products overall.
Overall, the outbreak of March 27, 1994 was not as synoptically evident as some of the past outbreaks that have occurred, as there was no deep surface low or trough present for forcing in the area where the storms occurred, and many the ingredients necessary that were the cause of this outbreak were not able to be forecasted until the morning of the event.
Confirmed tornadoes
March 27 event
Rome–Canton–Jasper, Georgia
The second violent tornado of the outbreak developed in a rural area of Floyd County, Georgia, about southeast of Rome, at 1:14 p.m. EST. Upon touching down, the wide tornado uprooted large pines and oaks while causing F0 damage to five or six homes of "mixed brick and wood construction." The tornado then moved northeast as it snapped trees before intensifying to F1 strength about west of Cartersville. During this, the tornado initially shrunk to wide, but then widened again to as it passed through Cassville, with F1 damage primarily to the roofs of 10–15 homes. The tornado blew down 20 large trees and damaged power lines in Cassville.
Thereafter, the tornado increased greatly in size and intensity as it passed between White and Rydal, with the first and only F4 damage occurring in a rural area northwest of Canton. There, the wide tornado leveled "five two-story brick and wood homes" to the ground in the Indian Springs subdivision. The tornado also severely damaged eight to 10 other homes and slightly damaged 12–15. Overall, the tornado was most destructive at Indian Springs and soon weakened as it continued northeast through wooded lands; however, its path briefly widened. It killed two people in a trailer along Georgia State Route 140 in Bartow County and snapped tall pine trees nearby. Though the wide tornado impacted forested areas, it still caused major damage to 10 mobile homes and six permanent homes, as well as damage to four unspecified vehicles.
Henceforth, the tornado continued to weaken to F2 intensity and contracted to wide as it passed into Pickens County, severely damaging 10–15 chicken coops along with 20–25 homes of brick and wood construction. It killed one more person in a trailer before lifting from the ground about east-southeast of Jasper. Ultimately, it caused almost $7 million (1994 USD) in losses to properties and businesses in Bartow County alone, with another $1.5 million in losses in adjourning Pickens County. The tornado killed three people and over 500,000 chickens along its track and leveled "thousands" of trees, with over $10 million in losses to agricultural interests.
Cave Spring/Lindale, Georgia
The sixth and final F3+ tornado to hit Georgia on March 27 touched down northwest of Cedartown at about 7:00 p.m. EST. Though mainly impacting rural areas at first, it badly damaged four wood homes and blew down many trees with resultant F1 damage. The tornado appeared reddish to eyewitnesses as it passed through rugged terrain. As it crossed near SR 100, the tornado produced major roof damage to a few homes and destroyed a pair of chicken coops. Widening to wide, the tornado acquired a multiple vortex structure as residents observed two or three funnels rotating around the main vortex. In southern Floyd County, about east of Cave Spring, the multiple-vortex tornado snapped trees in half and badly damaged five double-wide mobile homes along with three or four frail wood homes.
Afterward, the tornado strengthened to F2 intensity, causing more severe damage to wood homes, but soon contracted in size to wide and weakened into an F1 tornado. However, as it neared to within southwest of Lindale, it widened yet again and rapidly strengthened into an F3 tornado as it passed through Leawood Estates. There, it reportedly leveled "fifteen mixed single and two story mixed brick and wood homes of poor construction," along with some homes that were being built. The tornado caused 30 injuries, including one of a man who was thrown into the street across from his home. Residents reported continuous lightning preceding and during the passage of the tornado and were alerted by their dogs barking. Some residents also reported a smaller tornado south of the primary one.
After hitting Leawood Estates at maximum intensity, the tornado weakened back into an F2 tornado and shrunk to wide as it passed south of Rome. There, it badly damaged three poorly built wood homes, destroyed four mobile homes, and uprooted large trees. Farther along, it decreased in size to just wide but caused significant damage to 15–20 homes of brick and wood construction. As it passed southeast of Rome, the tornado degenerated into an F0 tornado over wooded farmland while causing major roof damage to a few homes before dissipating. According to the National Weather Service, the tornado destroyed 55–60 homes and did at least some damage to 140–150 others, with total losses reaching $6,750,000.
Effects on National Safety
The deaths at Goshen United Methodist Church brought to light the deficiencies in the NOAA Weather Radio network across the United States and the lack of NOAA Weather Radio use in many public spaces. Budget cuts in the 1970s had forced the National Weather Service to cut back on the expansion of new broadcast stations. Most urban and suburban areas in the country had sufficient coverage, but many rural areas had no coverage at all. After a visit to the Goshen site, then Vice President Al Gore pushed for further funding and expansion of the NOAA Weather Radio system, especially in rural areas. This was accomplished through an expansion of private-public partnerships, primarily by the National Weather Service leasing or using donated tower space from entities such as TV stations, public utilities, and state government agencies. Gore, also, pushed for facilities such as schools, hospitals, churches, and nursing homes to have weather radios on hand.
See also
1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak
1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak
2020 Easter tornado outbreak
Tornado outbreak sequence of March 24–28, 2021
References
Bibliography
Hamilton, David W., Yuh-Lang Lin, Ronald P. Weglarz, Michael L. Kaplan (1998). "Jetlet Formation from Diabatic Forcing with Applications to the 1994 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak". Monthly Weather Review, 126 (8).
Kaplan, Michael L., Yuh-Lang Lin, David W. Hamilton, Robert A. Rozumalski (1998). "The Numerical Simulation of an Unbalanced Jetlet and Its Role in the Palm Sunday 1994 Tornado Outbreak in Alabama and Georgia". Monthly Weather Review, 126 (8).
Koch, Steven E., David Hamilton, Devin Kramer, Adam Langmaid (1998). "Mesoscale Dynamics in the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak". Monthly Weather Review, 126 (8).
Langmaid, Adam H., Allen J. Riordan (1998). "Surface Mesoscale Processes during the 1994 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak". Monthly Weather Review, 126 (8).
Further information
External links
Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak March 27, 1994 (NWS Birmingham, Alabama)
NWS Service Assessment
Map of the 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak The Tornado History Project
Palm Sunday Killer Tornadoes
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Splenial
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The splenial is a small bone in the lower jaw of reptiles, amphibians and birds, usually located on the lingual side (closest to the tongue) between the angular and suprangular.
References
Vertebrate anatomy
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Thomas Bass (disambiguation)
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Thomas Bass (born 1951) is an American writer.
Thomas Bass may also refer to:
Tom Bass (American football) (born 1936), American football coach
Tom Bass (politician) (1927–2019), American politician in Texas
Tom Bass (sculptor) (1916–2010), Australian sculptor
Tom Bass (horse trainer) (1859–1934), American horse trainer
T. J. Bass (1932–2011), American author and physician
Thomas Lee Bass (born 1962), American musician known as Tommy Lee
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The Early Years: Rare Demos '91–'94
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The Early Years: Rare Demos '91–'94 is the first rarities compilation by American hip hop musician Ill Bill, released on September 16, 2001 by Psycho+Logical-Records.
The compilation contains 12 demos, an intro, two skits and one remix. Featured guests on the compilation include Goretex and Gongo Boy.
"Peep the Zoobaz" was also remixed for this release.
Track listing
"Intro" – 1:58
"Murder" – 4:33
"I'm Not Happy" – 3:36
"Bacardi and Acid" (featuring Goretex and Gongo Boy) – 2:58
"Economics" – 2:12
"Peep the Zoobaz" (featuring Goretex) – 3:26
"Junkies wit Gunz" (featuring Goretex) – 4:31
"Eat My Ass" – 3:52
"Dope Fiend" – 3:44
"Brooklyn Bonanza" – 4:48
"Run for Your Life" – 4:21
"Out to Lunch" (featuring Goretex) – 4:42
"Pussy" (Skit) – 0:43
"Orgy of the Damned" – 3:44
"What I Do" (Skit) – 1:11
"Peep the Zoobaz" (Remix) (featuring Goretex) – 2:43
The "Pussy" skit samples Cheech Marin's speech from the 1996 action/horror film From Dusk Till Dawn.
The "How to Kill a Cop" skit samples a scene from Quentin Tarantino's 1992 action/drama film Reservoir Dogs.
The track "Junkiez wit Gunz"" samples dialogue from the movie Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.
The track "Economics" has Boiler Room dialogue mixed in the song for the release.
The track "Peep The Zoobaz" samples dialogue from the movie Bad Lieutenant
The track "Peep the Zoobaz" (Remix) samples the instrumental from the song Ever So Clear by Bushwick Bill.
Personnel
Ill Bill – vocals, composing, writing
Necro – production
Goretex – guest vocals
Fatal - production ("Dope Fiend")
10K - production
B-Wiz - production
Gongo Boy – guest vocals
Ill Bill albums
2003 compilation albums
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Oxford Airport (disambiguation)
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Oxford Airport is a privately owned airport in Oxford, England.
Oxford Airport may also refer to:
Waterbury–Oxford Airport, an airport in Oxford, Connecticut
University-Oxford Airport, an airport in Oxford, Mississippi
Oxford House Airport, an airport in Oxford House, Manitoba
Oxford Airport (Massachusetts), a defunct airport in Oxford, Massachusetts
Henderson–Oxford Airport, an airport in Oxford, North Carolina
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The Regency Act 1830 (1 Will.4 c.2) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed to cater for the event that King William IV died while the next person in line to the throne was not yet aged 18. It provided for a regency until the new monarch reached the age of 18, and also would have enabled a posthumous child of King William IV to replace Queen Victoria on the throne. However, the Act never came into force, because William was not survived by a legitimate child and Victoria became queen at the age of 18 in 1837.
Reason for the Act
When William IV became king in June 1830 he had no legitimate children who could inherit the throne on his death. Aged 64, he was the oldest person to ascend the British, English, Scottish or Irish thrones. His next younger brother, Prince Edward, had died in 1820 and so the next person in line to the throne was Edward's 11-year-old daughter, Princess Victoria. Therefore, it was necessary to pass a law to provide for the government of the United Kingdom in case Victoria became queen while still under age, or in case William had a child who ascended while under 18. Parliament also decided to change the law about what would happen if William's wife, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, gave birth to his child after he died and Victoria had already become queen.
Provisions of the Act
Summary
The Act stated that if Victoria became queen while still a minor, then her mother, the Duchess of Kent, would become regent until Victoria was 18. However, if William had a legitimate son or daughter then that person would become king or queen instead of Victoria, and its mother, Queen Adelaide, would be regent. In either case, whoever was regent would exercise all the powers of the monarchy, except that the regent was prohibited from giving royal assent to a bill to change the line of succession to the throne, or a bill to repeal or alter the Act of Uniformity 1662 or the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Act 1707.
If William was not survived by a legitimate child when he died, and Victoria became queen, but then afterwards Adelaide gave birth to William's child, the Act stipulated that William's child was to immediately and automatically become monarch, replacing Victoria. If this happened then Adelaide would become regent until the new monarch was 18.
Whoever was monarch was prohibited from marrying without the regent's permission until they were 18. Anyone who married the monarch without permission, or who assisted in the marriage, would be guilty of high treason.
If the regent married a Roman Catholic, married a foreigner without permission, or left the United Kingdom, then she would forfeit her office.
Detail
The Act consisted of 12 sections:
Section 1 vested the regency in Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, if Victoria became queen while under 18, with the title "Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland". The regent was to have all the powers of a monarch, except those prohibited by section 10. The regency would end when Victoria became 18 or if Queen Adelaide gave birth to a child of King William after his death.
Section 2 required the Privy Council to proclaim Victoria's accession to the throne, and modified the oath of allegiance by adding to the end the words "Saving the Rights of any Issue of His late Majesty King William the Fourth which may be born of His late Majesty's Consort". This version of the oath was to be used "until Parliament shall otherwise order".
Sections 3, 4 and 5 were to apply if, after King William's death and Victoria's accession, Queen Adelaide gave birth to his posthumous child. In that event the child would become monarch, Queen Adelaide was to become regent, the Privy Council was to proclaim the accession of the new sovereign "without delay", both Houses of Parliament were to assemble, and the laws concerning the demise of the Crown were to apply as though Queen Victoria had died and the new monarch was her heir.
Section 6 stated that any official act done without the consent and authority of the regent was to be "absolutely null and void".
Sections 7 and 8 required the regent to take an oath of office and an oath to maintain the "true Protestant Religion", within one calendar month of becoming regent. At the same time, the regent was also to make a declaration against transubstantiation, the invocation of saints, and mass (this declaration was prescribed in a 1678 Act, the Test Act, as a means of barring Roman Catholics from entering Parliament). She was to produce a certificate verifying that she had received the eucharist in a royal chapel, signed by the priest who had administered it. The oaths, declaration and certificate were to be registered in the books of the Privy Council.
Section 9 made it unlawful for the new monarch to marry while under the age of 18, unless the regent gave written consent. An unlawful marriage was to be null and void, and the person marrying the monarch would be guilty of treason, which was then punishable with death and posthumous quartering. Also any person "acting, aiding, abetting, or concerned in obtaining, procuring, or bringing about any such Marriage" would also be guilty of treason.
Section 10 prohibited the regent from giving royal assent to a bill to change the line of succession to the throne as established by the Act of Settlement, or to repeal or alter the Act of Uniformity 1662 or the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Act 1707.
Section 11 disqualified the Duchess of Kent from becoming regent if, in William's lifetime, she married a Catholic or a person "other than a natural-born Subject" without William's consent. After William's death, if either she or his widow married a Catholic or a person other than a natural-born subject without the consent of both Houses of Parliament, or left the United Kingdom, then their regency was to end.
Section 12 stated that if Queen Adelaide died and King William remarried, then the Act was to expire.
See also
Regency Acts
Succession to the British throne
References
A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the First and First And Second Years of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, 1830, 1831 London: J. Richards, 1834.
External links
Third reading in the House of Lords, in which a precedent is discussed, in Hansard, 6 December 1830
British monarchy
Succession to the British crown
Constitution of the United Kingdom
Constitutional laws of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1830
Regency (government)
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